Tree time lapse GIF

This was a pain in the ass to make (something I've found myself saying frequently lately) which I hadn't been expecting. 
I thought I'd have trouble with the color transition but it was just too easy. What I did have trouble with was editing the mesh and having the effects apply to all the leaves.
Also, my laptop cannot handle even this much and has been super laggy and annoying =.=
I had applied a rotation, thought it was slight but didn't realize it had rotated around the z axis, which causes all the leaves to face the camera with their thin edge at once (at least I think that that's what the issue is) around frame 310. I tried to fix it somewhat but it wasn't much better and I ended up messing up the color also, so I went with the original.
The number of frames of this animation is 352; I was kinda hoping for 365 (probably would've been better too) but oh well, close enough