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http://www.demoncam.com/film/

Corny acting, but awesome special effects – I especially like the effects used when the crystal ball is smashed.

Elizabeth Jeffries
Art 185
@lizard
#2

This video seemed to be patched together in kind of a strange way with the image of the vehicle going from a drawing on a piece of paper to outer space then back to earth. It plummets through a layer of clouds and explodes, and then something that appears to be a rock or meteorite appears and another vehicle. There were some random graphics, and music, and then the original vehicle appears again and screeches off. it was choppy, and I just didn’t get it. However, aesthetically, I liked much of the imagery. The smoking tires and the jet stream produced by the vehicle being propelled through outer space and the backdrop of mountains and the sky looked believable. The stars in the background moving from right to left really gave the effect of speed and motion. The explosion had a three dimensional look to it and was very cool looking. The video was short in duration and very energetic, so I could watch it several times without getting bored.

This appeared to be a pretty low budget and somewhat amateur production, but the effects made an otherwise mundane short film pretty interesting. I tend to have a pretty short attention span when it comes to watching videos on YouTube. Six minutes can be an eternity, but in the case of this video, I enjoyed watching the special effects, and I found myself hanging in for the whole six minutes to see what was coming next. I thought the producers of this video did a great job of making a typical karate themed short film interesting using Adobe After Effects.

Here’s a fun tutorial for using the shattering effect. We may not be able to get the kind of shattering seen in the demoncam.com video, but there’s a lot of things this could be used for!