This was my very first time working with AfterEffects. The assignment was to take a metaphorical prompt (mine was combustion) and abstract it into a simple story, animated through AfterEffects.

I attempted to use hand-drawn images imported from photoshop, to mixed results. While frame-by-frame animation would have probably looked much better, I did not have the knowledge to pull that off, nor would that be feasible given the time constraints. Thus, I used the puppet tool for nearly all of this.

Unfortunately, the models deform unnaturally at several points in the animation, and some of the movements really feel stiff and awkward. Further, the metaphor does not come through as well as it probably could have. The greatest strength here is probably the cute drawings I did, but those alone will not make this a great product. This is a first try, nothing more, I suppose.