This is brilliant!
- I like the animation, but I do feel that it would work better if you could see more of the bugs with fluttering wings. Now there's just one bug in the foreground that we can see clearly, and we can barely see the edges of a couple other insect wings. If there was a whole swarm of wholly visible bugs, then the fluttering wings of one individual wouldn't stand out as much. Also, instead of an animation where the wings go in and out of existence, perhaps they should be present in every frame, but with varying opacity and hue, to give an illusion of movement. It would make the animation more smooth, I think. Not as eye-catching.
- I agree with Manupix that the planet is too eye-catching.
- In regards to the hand gesture, at first glance, I thought he was leading the bugs to war. He seems to stand up like a general, his eyes on the horizon. But since he's standing on the right side, in front of the factories, I guess he's actually there to stop the bugs, telling them to go home. Whatever it is, I think it's a bit hard to understand what's going on. If he's leading them, he should be pointing them in the direction they're supposed to go. Or not pointing at all, but beckoning them towards him. If he's telling them to go home, it would be easier to understand if he was looking at them, instead of looking into the clouds.
- If you just extended the canvas 30 pixels horizontally and vertically, you could show more bugs, on the left side and below. Perhaps it would make the sea of bugs easier to read if you could see more of them, and it would also help the animation issiue.
EDIT: Amazing how morons like myself start posting without even paying attention to the thread title. My bad. So he's doing the nazi salute. Well, never mind my comments above. No point trying to make sense of a scene where a nazi wizard is saluting a swarm of zergs