Working from a set of style frames provided by Tele Towns, I built the full animated explainer video and used the project to push into a technique I hadn't worked with before: faking convincing 3D motion inside what's primarily a 2D pipeline.

Two elements in the storefront needed to feel physically real, not just animated:

The revolving door had to rotate through a believable arc without the angle or perspective breaking.

The awning above the storefront had to open the way real fabric does, not a simple scale or fade.

3D block-out in Blender. I modeled and rendered the revolving door in Blender first, to lock in the angle and perspective, something that's nearly impossible to eyeball by hand directly in After Effects.

Matched motion in After Effects. I brought that render into AE and matched my animation path precisely to the 3D reference, so the final motion held its dimensionality even once it was styled flat.

Style Frames

Credits Animation: Omar Jabr Tools: After Effects, Illustrator