This was an experiment short animation I did using Adobe After Effects. The idea was to recreate the following scene on Adobe Illustrator and apply what I learned by watching youtube tutorials.

Since After Effects cannot process the gradients from vector files, I manually reapplied them on each layer:

Later, I created 5 pre-compositions to keep the layers more organized and easier to animate. For the clouds on the front, I wanted them waving while the ones on the back to be scrolling horizontally to the left.

To animate the binocular, I added the effect repeater (which works similar to Adobe Illustrator's blend) to make it look like it's 3D and created two more fingers for each hand. This short animation took me around 2 days to finish.