1. Speak up in your own crits.  You have eyes and opinions, suggestions, etc.  SPEAK.   Lord knows your prof won’t say anything helpful.

2.  Don’t use mental ray physical sun & sky.  Its easily spotted and you can create your own lighting that honestly can look better.

3.  for fuck’s sake blur your shadows.

4. A little bit more effort into the shaders please.  -1o for every shader with no bump/displacement/layers/thought

5.  ANIMATION.  no one had nice secondary animation.  Everyone should have video taped themselves moving to try and get better animation results.  RESEARCH!  thats how you get better.

6.  APPROXIMATION EDITER/SUBDIV SCHEME!

7.  Camera cuts!