Universe
I've always relished the idea of emulating different movie studio intros, such as the well-known classic and modernized versions from Universal Studios. This is what happened, so far, with that idea. I never could have anticipated this outcome. The video includes excerpts from The Great Dictator (Chaplin) and Pale Blue Dot (Sagan), with pieces of music by The Knife.
Night Before Christmas
First off, I'll admit that a lot of this video is really bad ... I was brand new to After Effects and I was pushing my limits. I took as many of Andrew Kramer's tutorials as I could, and pieced them together, as creatively as possible, to form a story. I then burnt this story to DVD and gave it as a Christmas gift. Let's count the Video Copilot tuturials, in order ... Smoke Screen, Disintegration, Flip-Book Motion, Earth Zoom, Day to Night Conversion, Submerged, Frosty Breath, 3D Camera Projection, 3D Light Casting ...
Psycho
When I put this together I was rehearsing for a contemporary dance version of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. The show's artistic director, Lane Hunter, chose a piece of music by Go Percussion for part of the soundtrack. This video's music, which I made in Apple Logic, is meant to sound like the before mentioned song by Go Percussion. The visual elements, including the falling and splattering rain, the rain drops streaking down the glass, and the text, were all created and composited in After Effects.
Meteor Strike
Using a tutorial by Andrew Kramer, of Video Copilot, I captured my own footage on my iPhone4 and created my own version. Maya and After Effects. No audio.