Agh..looking at other people's buildings and sets..just makes me feel embarrassed at how bland my own sets are

I like that harbor set.  Boy, I don't have nearly half as many baseplates as many of the animators.  When I animated Hector Bing in ep 2 of my series riding a car and listening to jazz music, I did the old Tom & Jerry trick of keeping the car in a fixed position and cycling a series of backgrounds behind him.

I've recently started doing that, and as the harbor is somewhat of an old set, (I build it about a year ago) I've been working to improve my sets a lot since then. I have an exterior to a police building, and I'll  put that up once I get home.

i'd like to see something fill in the rear-right corner of the elevated base, but very good use of stone-like terrain.

The yellow curtains don't look like curtains, and the yellow is a bit too attention-grabbing. Stealing the glory from the great detailing elsewhere. I'd take those out, and maybe try to make those back windows bigger. (It's three windows there, not two, if I remember right. Changing that may help.)

It looks great, but doesn't instantly register Oval Office. It does in time, and maybe I'm just slow, but it seems to be missing a little something.

Squid,
Shouldn't you be running out of bricks sometime soon? How do you just keep building these great and part-intensive buildings only to say that it'll be in the background of a huge scene for only a few shots?

Flying,
The set looks good. You'll need something in the building because of the clear windows, but I like it.
Yeah, the car doesn't look futuristic, but it still looks really nice. Maybe try taking as much as a brick out of it's height, adding some detail or flashy something to the sides, more lights? Dunno, just throwing ideas out there. Hate to break that up though, I'd almost want to drive something like that.

I am limited by piece type for the curtains, this is the only other version I can get of the curtains, which do you like better?

I knew that there were 3 windows when I build the set (I did look at reference pictures) and was just trying to simplify things, and it will cut directly from this wide shot which also has a lower then actual window count:

I still need to play with the outside lighting to make it match the wideshot better so don't worry about that.

Yeah, it will let people see more of the sky, still have a few issues with the lighting, the current dramatic lighting to highlight a few of the sets issues the the bland lighting seems to hide, so I will be playing with it a bit more, but not that I have the sky sort of lit I think it's really nice to hide as little of the windows as possible.

The White House wide shot is what got me into brick built flags and I am a huge fan of them, printing flags on a piece of paper feels like a cop out, and you can have some fun, simple animation added to brick built flags although the hanging flags will remain static.

Thanks, the photos are from the Medieval Market Village I have used prints in the past for my movies but I haven't even had access to a printer for the last few years.

Welp, you are a bit late, already animated every shot on this set, also the desk needed to be pushed back that far for some animation specific reasons which I am not disclosing, but it will work in the film.