how have i never seen this piece before?

nice job!

very nice! : )

looks like the start of something cool. the camerawork is a bit jarring in places, so smoothing some of that out would help.

i think the black/white/red works really well, especially for the subject matter, but i think the introduction of yellow is a little awkward and the green part in the beginning almost looks like it's from a different piece.

that stuff is totally your call, but sometimes a more unified palette can help stuff like this and keep it "living in the same world" so to speak.

anyway, strong work. looking forward to the finished piece...

very cool ! nice work with camera depth of field.
I don't think you should unify your colors, just keep the same "B&W stuff with colorful backround" scheme you got all over the rest of your vid...It works great with blue and red, it should work with green too, but right now the first scene seems a bit overloaded to me...Brushes + sunbeams + frame + 2 diferent graphisms for the characters i think that's why it doesn't feel unified..
Also i would give a halftone effect to the presidents, that would be cool ;-)

this is so awesome! i so need to get ae and learn how to do this. great job!

Brilliance, my friend. This is top of the line animation. Do you prefer Motion over every other animation toolset you've used?

Hell Yeah!!!! The Rocked!!!