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So what really happened?

1) A Lightning strike tears opens a wormhole (portal) to another dimension
2) An angry Alien just happened to shoot a laser beam through the portal onto a building
3) Unlike the Aliens from the Independence Day movie, these Aliens are pansies and could only do damage equivalent to a bazooka shooting lasers out of their belly buttons. :)

Thanks mightily to Andrew Kramer for his Sky Replacement tutorials. I wanted to do more but I guess this is already pretty overkill for a 4 second video and my Pentium D PCcan only handle so many layers in After Effects CS4.

Most of the effects are actually from Particle Illusion 3.0 this time. Only used stock footage from Action Essentials 2 for the cracks and water splash. Lightning, rain and puddles are from the Lightning, '3D Particle World' and 'Drizzle' presets.

I got the sound effects from quite a few youtube users. Will credit them one by one in the near future. Please comment whether it is good or bad.

Things you may not have noticed:

1) It is raining.
2) Puddles on the floor (barely visible though)
3) I made the cracks spread outwards quickly by using masking but because some parts of it were obscured by the explosion fireball, it seem to just appear suddenly.

Mistakes:

1) Glass shards from the windows breaking on he right side of the explosion should be flying away from the camera, not towards unlike the debris and the other windows.


Not mistakes:

1) Wormhole being out of place, appearing behind and in front of objects at the same time. It is supposed to warp space and time. it wouldn't look at neat if I put it in the same layer as the sky.