How's this for a bad idea? I'm reblocking almost my entire animation during the week I'm supposed to be finishing it!

You see, each character we get comes with a bunch of controls (controls for arm movement, leg movement, etc). There's one control for placing the character in a certain place in the scene (called the control mover). This control is NOT TO BE ANIMATED WITH (meaning you can't move the character around during the actual scene by selecting this controller and...uh, animating with it. It's only for placement before your scene actually starts). Animating with this controller will fuck your character's shit UP. I have no idea why, but when you convert your animation over from blocking to a smoother mode, bizarre things will happen. The character will slide around from one side of the screen to another. The head will bend in ways it shouldn't. Even the feet will go insane and end up on opposite ends of the scene. And NOTHING fixes it.

Well, guess who didn't know this? ME! So after a great deal of blocking in my shot in stepped (or, jerky and with no in-between poses) mode, I switched to smooth (or spline--er, in-between mode)...and my little bobble-headed guy turned into a contortionist.

Long (and confusing) story short, I had to throw 2/3 of my assignment out the window and re-do nearly every move all over again. It has to be done and smoothed out and polished by Sunday noon! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!