Motion Studies Work

After spending a lot of time modelling on Maya, I tried my go at lip-syncing and generally animating within the software. It was very hard at first and I need to upgrade my lip-syncing as it doesnt show enough emotion I feel:

I then moved onto trying the acting side of the speech we were given which didn't bode too well for me I feel, I encountered a lot of problems but I know for future reference where I went wrong from the start:

The dog was my best try at animating because I managed to get the key poses in well, however, it doesn't run smoothly when it should, so I will be needing to sort that out soon: