Self Symbol GIF

My concept is 'Thinking outside the box'. I came to this idea because I've always thought of myself as someone who goes the extra mile, someone who is willing to push themselves and find another way to solve an issue. My GIF is the literal meaning of the phrase 'Thinking outside the box', and thus, I have the brain, an expression of the mind, rising out of the box, and becoming the center.

My initial thumbnail sketches had the box opening up during the animation, and then the brain just simply rising out towards the top of the screen. I realized that when I was going to make this animation in Photoshop, the box opening up was too difficult, and would have taken too much time. So instead, I decided to just have the box already open. As well, after the brain came out, I decided to lower the box and drop it off screen, and then make the brain the center in order to emphasize its importance.