How To Animate a Snowflake in After Effects

There are so many great Russian After Effects tutorials that a lot of you don’t get to hear about because of the language barrier, and that’s a shame. I decided to change that a bit by partnering with my Russian friends over at and translate one of their After Effects tutorials. The author of this snowflake tutorial is a very talented motion graphics designer named Mikhail Bychkov, who is based out of Moscow, Russia. In this tutorial we’ll be creating an animated snowflake using shape layers a