Motion Graphic Inspiration

Over the past week I've been looking at different ways to animate within After Effects. Something I'd never looked into previously was how the League of Legends animated illustrations are made. The process which is used to create these is very similar to what I was going to be using in my project. All of the animated illustrations they use are exactly that, illustrations animated with visual effects.
http://www.riotgames.com/illustrations-come-life-league%E2%80%99s-login-screens

Another is Hearthstone's golden card portraits. These are made in Unity using different shader effects, whereas the previous example uses After Effects Because of this, the process is considerably different to mine, but I may look at emulating some of the effects made within After Effects.

There are a lot of different techniques used within these animations that I'd never even thought possible. It'll be interesting for me to see if I'm able to come up with something new, since I'll be creating the illustration with animatable parts in mind.