Jonah and the Whale: Short Animation made from Oil and Watercolor

This short film is an animation adapted from the story of Jonah and the whale and it is showing the main parts of the story only. Everything was painted in oil or watercolor, cutout in Photoshop, and animated in After Effects. The final result is above expectations, given the fact that no special 3D software was used and that paintings compose everything.
Jonah is a biblical character given to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC. His story is famous and traveled in time, until it got amaze believers of our times. The story goes that one day God asked a man named Jonah to go to a certain place and tell the people living there to stop being bad. Jonah instead wanted them to be punished for their mistakes and decided not to go, but instead run away from God. In response, God sent a violent storm, which threatened to break the ship to pieces. Instead of drowning, Jonah was swallowed by a great fish. Jonah was in the giant fish three days. God commanded the whale, and it vomited the reluctant prophet onto dry land.