Getting Back into the Cycle

I thought it fitting for the start of a new semester to share some of what kicks around my mind. This is a slightly refined version of a concept I scribbled in a sketchbook last semester. The idea struck me all of a sudden and it still intrigues me enough that my hope is to make it a short animation sometime in the near future.

At first I imagined it in a similar style to my ACP Animation final project (below), which was done solely in Photoshop. But I am thinking differently now with all the opportunities available in After-Effects. I would really like to get a more detailed sense of movement which is next to impossible using stamps and brushes on a 2D plane!