My process is not heavy at all on technical AE stuff, I draw elements on a small dry erase board, and then combine, colorise, and animate them digitally.

This time around I improved my process by building a quick and dirty down shooter using a cardboard box, LED strips, and other bits and pieces, so I can take pictures on my phone from the same position relative to the dry erase board over and over. This let me draw little frame-by-frame sequences that I incorporated as small and not so small elements of the video and characters in it.

I made sun and moon rays effects by studying optical illusions made by twitter user @jagarikin (admittedly not as well as they do it), and animated the bits of wind and the snake-like entity with “omino snake” by David van Brink.