Project 0

Well, this video is my first project I did while using After Effects. I was playing around with camera shots and angles and this was the start of something that pushed me further in this direction.

It all started while I was watching YouTube videos of various special effects with my friend, Boby. At first, I thought that only big companies can do such special effects, like those of the great movies made by studios that work with big budgets.

But it was Boby who told me that by following a tutorial online we could do the same. And so it began, we recorded the scene and started following the tutorial step by step, and in the end we managed to do it ourselves. When we saw the final result, we could not believe it – we loved how it all turned out, even for a first attempt. We were already thinking of playing jokes on our parents with the tricks we learned, but in the end we focused on learning more, and left the pranking for later.

I knew that I did not have enough money to pursue a career in audiovisuals, but I liked so much what I learned that it pushed me to keep learning tutorials until I reached a point where I began to understand entirely how everything worked within the software I was using. And the most important thing I discovered while I was acquiring knowledge, was that the limits were standing only in our creativity and desire to create.

Mar 2, 2007