Hi Chrishonda
Animate will be good for you, After Effects will be good for you too. It all depends where your creative skills feel most at home.
Animate is for making something like website/page animations, games and interactive presentations. Or this all for applications on desktop computers and mobile devices. You can edit vector graphics, import bitmaps (i.e photos from your smart phone) and videos and use them on a timeline with keyframes and so called tweens. It also includes the ability to write programming code in either Javascript or Actionscript to add interactive user experience. The overall focus is somewhat towards developers.
After Effects - well I know it only a little but I work with a collegue who is more of an illustrator type and he says: I'm in trouble when working with Animate but I love working with After Effects. After Effects is definately more focussed towards video (i.e. YouTube) and is generally closer to i.e. Adobe Remiere, a video editing suite. There's no programming language (coding for interactive user experience).
For creating something like the video example you mentioned, you can create that in Animate easily, both the making of illustrations in vector style and the animation in a timeline. It might feel a bit abstract though if you get my drift.
In After Effects you would have to create the illustrations in something like Illustrator first and then animate those in a composition window in AE.
Well, follow your heart, so to speak
here is an introductory video to After Effects
and here's one to Animate .
Enjoy
Klaus
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