Not only was this project supposed to act as an introduction into Adobe After Effects, it was also meant as an exercise in construction over time. I had to create an object in my animation, and then create motion with it; that meant that the object might change throughout the animation, or something might happen to it. I decided to construct this 2D tesseract gradually through the explorations of a little stick man, and then reveal the entire shape at the end. By creating my object through hand drawings, I wanted to give the animation a story-like feel, and to be something fun to watch.
