Animated Bird (SandStorm)-After Effects Motion Design

Three days ago I saw an image of a bird flying above a Watery Terrain while searching for something on Google. I took quite a liking to that picture and admired the original photographer. However, I myself also tried to do something and downloaded that picture, opened that in Adobe Photoshop, manipulated it so it resembled a sandstorm. My curiosity and expectations got even bigger and I decided to make an animated version of it. Using SandStorm Motion kit I finally redesigned it in Adobe After Effects. Though the design itself didn't take too long to complete, but the rendering took one sweet hour. I've to convert it from QuickTime Format (Video Codec: Animation, File size: 7GB) to iPad Video Format (Codec: MPEG-4, File size: 60MB) :3