Self Taught After Effects (Inspired by Workshop 2 by Sara)

For the latest brief "Identify", I set myself a challenge of using my After Effects knowledge from the workshops and trying to put this into identifying the Graffiti of Manchester. I wanted to work with what I learnt from the first workshops by having frequently fast images repeating one after another. I found this easy as I have done this several times however I wanted to have some sort of challenge. I decided to extend my knowledge from the last workshop of using the rotation and position tools. I set myself the challenge of having the Bees that I Illustrated to come off the screen and reveal "BEE IT MCR". I used the position tool by having the bee leave the workspace but I also used the rotation tool on some of the bees so as the bee left it would rotate itself similar to what bee animations appear like now. Below shows my animation inspired by my workshops:

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