Week 1 Lab 1

I've never done custom special effects on videos before, which practically means that I never touched Adobe After Effects before. Hence, almost everything I learned on the first lab was new to me, although several terms, such as keyframes and animation, are familiar to me as we learned about such things in the past. The first two tutorials went smoothly and I must say that the tutorial was rather thorough. Almost no problems were encountered. I actually followed the tutorials to the letter, hence it looked virtually similar to the actual video. Here is what I have done so far:

Making these actually made me interested to learn more so I won't stop at these two tutorials. Should I find the time, I would go through the rest and possibly post them on this post. (In fact, I learned how to render by jumping to the final tutorial, which was about rendering.)