Animating Advocacy

I recently animated a video discussing the process of Job Growth in the recession for the Center for American Progress. The video was created entirely in after effects and took about a week to fully animate. The goal was to create a motion graphics piece with simple and pleasing movement, sounds, and aesthetics. I went with earthy tones to relate the idea of “growth” and “recycling,” as well as the use of paper textures and green symbols and imagery.

Check out the video below (as always, the views of this video are not my own and belong to the organization I created it for: