See below link to my final scene. It isn’t perfect, and there are some animation and material tweaks I could have made, but I think I have a pretty good grasp on compositing and video editing, and I’m going to move on to a new tutorial after this (GameDev.tv Character creator course!!). I feel that there is still so much to learn, and at this point my time is better spent learning new things versus getting this animation perfect and re-rendering.
That said this section was so much fun, and as I get better at blender, I look forward to doing so much more compositing, VFX, and animating. This has been a stellar tutorial series, and it comes with my highest recommendation!