In my digital special effects class, our teacher wanted us to take a weekend and make a short film with no sound showing what we could do in any special effects software of our choosing. Great. I had never done special effects. So, since I already owned a version of After Effects that I had only launched once before getting scared, closing it, and vowing to never open it again, I got on youtube and tried to learn as much as I could from prepubescent kids more talented than 33-year-old me.
They didn't teach me much beyond how to make text do various things. So I spent a day just learning how to navigate in After Effects. I consider myself lucky because I come from an era where all our special effects came from how well we could scratch the super8 film, or how fast our VCR's flying erase head was. So I learned how one could cheat with simple crops, overshooting the film, and making fast cuts. Here's my first attempt at basic special effects in After Effects.
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