Part of a work in progress explaining/illustrating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Final product is intended to include a green-screened actor (or Character Animator object) at left providing more detail for each level of the pyramid.
The flat animations are created via morphing 3 shape layers; smoke effects via CC Particle World w/ blur; pyramid layers are constructed from solids transformed via a pseudo-3D script. A final version would likely convert to using actual 3D objects via Element3D for improved responsiveness and reduced rendering overhead.