I had this illustration that I made from a friend's photo, taken in Jaipur, India.

Later I decided to change the colors, make some adjustments and add textures. I ended up adding most of my textures in Illustrator and Photoshop before moving to After because I wanted to have more control.

For the initial animation of the leafs I made just one and duplicated them in after. I did the same with one elephant and added some text. I did color correction in after.

This is my final animation using all the tricks Jake taught in this class. I did like 20 iterations and it took me about two weeks and lots of hours to be happy with the result but although its still kind of dark, I like it! 

https://vimeo.com/162102812

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