After Effects... You have kiddnapped my sanity and i would like it back thankyou.

Okay so today we got given our first really big assignment in class. We have 4 days to design a 2D background that can be moved about in 3D space. Sounds confusing I know. I was a completely astonished to see what this technique is used for and how seamless it can be. 

So first I spent a couple of hours doing background research and put together some concepts for my background. Quick concepts that took about 20 minutes each.

I chose the underwater ruins concept because I thought It had really great depth and would be simple to color and complete. I broke down my concept and tweaked it to simple shapes and forms that I could use to test my background in AFX.

I then chucked my test background into AFX and began composting it in 3D. After hours of ruthless tinkering I got somewhere, only to have AFX crap out and decide not to render for me. Well I finally got it to work and here I am.