As an animator, this happens to me often - even if the stuff is good! After you view something for hours on end, your mind become numb to the nuances that make

As an animator, this happens to me often - even if the stuff is good! After you view something for hours on end, your mind become numb to the nuances that make it great. On a tight deadline there isn't always the luxury to actually get away from it. My solution is to look at some work of other animators that inspire me - but only for a couple of minutes - then go back to my animation and prepare myself for the "Single Viewing Moment of Truth". I get one or two truly objective viewings of it until my mind slips back into the abyss, so I keep my pen in hand ready to scribble notes about what I see.