In conclusion: The final product is really just okay. It’s got some solid animations in it that I’m proud of, the cat’s eye squeeze, the rat scare and the cat grabbing the rat but the entire middle section with the cheese just falls flat. This is largely due to the scene being added during the middle of production and a failure on my side to properly plan the sequence before I started work on it.

Had I the time there’s a few chnages I would have liked to implement. After a discussion with my co-worker Henry he suggested that when he sees the cheese the rat should take a few steps foward and then when the cat appears he should begin to back away. I think this additional animation would have made a big difference in livening up the middle section.
I also feel like I could go back and tweak the cat’s outro a little more, give it a stronger feeling of the movement to the animation. Considering I’m still learning the ropes with 2D animation the final output is fine, there’s definite areas of improvement and it could do with some more work to get it perfect but there’s an clear progress of quality from my work earlier in the year so it’s mostly a success.