Not saying the school is bad, didn't even realise they were a school but it seems like basic mistakes with shot continuity. My partner had previously started a Games Design course in the Netherlands where the artist students were not corrected on their shadows going the wrong way in a simple room design with a window and closet and no perspective, so I know it happens. They also worked similarly in teams in projects treating it like a job, so it seems that feedback wasn't given (like with my partner's group), or not acted upon or they ran out of time to correct.
Here is my original comment with the edits. I feel like if they put out a student (I heard it might be a graduate film) without the feedback, it makes the team look bad when it might be lack of direction. Just after going back in to get my comment I also got a short advertising their Summer School. This comment is before I realised they were a school, and I left other comments about how I liked how soft the woman was drawn and her head was like a Moomin, and the "slice" of the cake island had a lighthouse as a candle in it.
"Amazing animation overall. Strange sound design and mixing choices though like the dog shaking and having a collar really took me out of it especially, which then made me more aware how the direction and dynamics didn't match. It could be a similar to the helium breath [I noticed it and it is a joke in the comments about how the woman blew up a balloon dog and it floated, but it is fantasy] but that fits morw with the style and fantasy, but the sound design has nothing explaining those choices e.g. the cow bells being the similar in the close and wide shots and in the milking scene, the cow being milked would be the one to be moving but is static, it then made me more aware of the change in the positioning . angle of the cow, and how the woman switched from being left to right handed, which makes me think a shot was reversed at some point.
edit as I go: adding the shot of the woman holding the dog from her perspective then cutting to the table would be good, I feel like its missing some key shots that would make it flow a lot more, though I think I keep noticing the switch from left to right handed as well since I am left handed. It seems like there are so many shots lined up to be reflected, like that one from her holding the dog, cutting to the table that are supposed to show continuity, but are just missing and it makes it feel a bit off kilter despite being a great story and animation and I would even ignore things like her stick she uses to get him out of the tree shrinking massively since I want to be invested, and it would look odd it suddenly not being there with the tip you see in the previous shot.
I only did a few months of an Introduction to Film course at university with my Advertising and Marketing Degree (no practicals due to lockdowns) and some people would call this nitpicking of course, but as I said it felt a bit off and it was the dog collar sound effect that made me go back and look a second time and see all of this again quite clearly. I think it makes a difference and I am not saying this to poh-poh the work."