One of the best tutorials here!
I've been tinkering around with stuff, but your animation really gives direction to my work. I love your forest effects and will be using them in the overhead views of the city in my upcoming blockbuster "Flash Noir." The "random" faery flitting effects were very interesting and useful. I never understood masks until this tutorial. I didn't even notice how the shine stayed while the gears moved, but it's a great subtle effect that, once again, I will use in my animation. Music, well, it was varied and appropriate. I like the fold-out animation on the buttons as well as the "SECRET OMG!" This is, in my humblest of opinions, the only tutorial worthy of being an actual Daily Feature and possibly Top 50 material. Keep up the work, and who knows--maybe I'll get better and be doing a collab with you guys in the future! <_< >_> <_< >_> ...or mmmaybe not.