Drawing my pictures in Photoshop

I chose to draw all of my pictures in Photoshop because it is easy to create a painted effect with the various brushes that Photoshop has.

After creating the pictures using various layers, I then flattened them to make it easier to place them in After Effects.

For the images that I am going to have movement on, I will cut up the different parts of the image that I want to move and put them on their own layers.

Drawing style

For my video, I am drawing all of my pictures in Photoshop. Here is an example of one of the scenes in my video:

 This is the first scene of my video. It shows the 'goal island' that the people on the first island that they need to get, which has a brighter sky to signify that this is a better place to be than the other one.

New story for my video

After talking about my idea with others, the idea of flight being the main focus of my story has been scrapped because it was not considered a 'different' idea. If flying was possible, everyone would do it, rather than building things to cross to an island.
To keep my original idea fairly similar and a bit more of a believable ending for the story. I am thinking of including a dragon and various obstacles that the people must traverse through to get to the other island. The others think of ways to pass or defeat the dragon, whereas the main character is thinking of befriending the dragon instead so she can cross on it.