I was able to help Richard Gillies early in his project by creating a custom shader to act as a rig for his lighting scheme, making is easier to animate the falloff of the lights in his scene.  I was also able to help with the many cursors scene using a neat trick I discovered while working with particle emitters and goal objects.

I also wrote several scripts for classmate Diego De la Rocha that made his rigging process much faster, allowing him the time to concentrate on his distinctly imaginative animations.