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Officially the longest time I've spent on a video in proportion to its length. I shudder when I think about the time I'd have to spend on a 15 min effects laden video.

1. The actor relighting kinda sucks even though bulk of my time was spent on it. I think the feathering is too low.

2. Used Particle Illusion 3.0 sorely for the fireball. Action essentials 2 from Video Copilot for all the other effects and Sony Vegas 10 for editing. Adobe After Effects CS4 for motion tracking.

3.Yeah, effects were overkill and maybe a bit illogical but I just want to push the envelope a bit since it's only (technically) a 4 second clip.

4. I had Andrew Kramer killed in the end by a sniper gun. That's for the initial shaky cam. :) I'd have made the cam shake only after rendering everything. But seriously, his tutorials on the VCP website are awesome! If you freeze frame just before the video fades out, you can see a hole in his throat. It looked unnatural though which is why I had to quickly fade it out.

5. You can see some of the wall fragments at the bottom right corner are white, alluding to paint.

6.The ridiculous amount of debris flying is due to the 2 explosions (one at the wall and another happening just in front of the gun man), simulating explosive damage made by a tank cannon.On repeated viewing, I realised I should have made the second explosion louder since it is happening closer to camera, especially since it was drowned out by machine gun fire (which is just wrong).