The assignment was to model a plane and animate it along a path with a
hill terrain. My teacher provided the texture, but we still had to
figure out how to place everything percisely, so the texture did not fit
in all funky. Modeling the plane was really fun and went by quick, but
the animating was something I have not done in Maya before, thus I had
some difficulties. It was assigned to have some type of "Paint FX" (the
tree) somewhere in our project, but for some reason I failed to realize
the tree was above the hill terrain not on it. However, my teacher did
not seem to even notice this and gave me an A on the project with no
mention of this mysterious floating tree in the comment box O_O