Skate spot 1 of a possible 5 under way (each being used for a 5 second clip of a trick, the last one being him falling).
I've already built a mini ramp for one of the clips but need to build the surrounding background for it.

The polycount for the skater and the completed board came out as around 9600, so I'm figuring if I can manage to keep the scenes at under 20000 I'll have no problems with rendering and can possibly add in some more maya hair or fur to use as grass, or some paint effects plants. I'll have to see how it goes.

I've now come up with an idea for after this little challenge so will be extending the whole animation afterwards. Hopefully by quite a bit making it a short. I have an opening sequence I want to do that isn't actually skating. And an idea for an ending, all of which could push it to spending a few months making it a full length short. Fingures crossed that all works out!