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The steps I used to create my Animated Landscape were going to Adobe Illustrator and clicking New File. After I opened up my new file, I started working on the background. For the background, I used a grey, black, and yellow color to show a darkness effect. Once I finished my background, I moved onto the mountains. I found some mountains, birds, and trees online and dragged them into my file. I started to copy and paste where I wanted the mountains, birds, and trees, and separated them into their layers. As I finished with my mountains, birds, and trees, I started creating a moon. I used the Eclipse tool to make a circle and drew some shapes to add to my moon. I also used the shape tool to make some stars. As I was done with my landscape, I moved on to After Effects to start animating it. To make my birds and moon move around, I clicked transform and then on position. I then moved my keyframe to where I wanted the animation to start. I then copied and pasted that same keyframe to add to the end so it is on loop. To make my trees move, I used the puppet positioning tool and clicked on where I wanted to add some pins. After I was done, I clicked on position and moved my trees side to side to create a wind effect. After I was done with those animations, I moved on to the background noise. Lastly, for the background noise, I downloaded an audio of birds chirping and dragged it into After Effects. 
 

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Adobe Illustrator and After Effects were both a decent amount of challenging. While using Adobe Illustrator, it was easy for me to copy and paste any trees, birds, or mountains. As for After Effects, it was challenging for me to work with all the other buttons and add keyframes. I overcame these challenges by taking my time with one animation instead of doing it all at once. This helped me focus on one thing instead of confusing me. I think I have got the hang of both After Effects and Adobe Illustrator a little bit more than I did before.