golden axe revisited

this was the very first shot that i actually worked on using after effects - it was for a student film called 'the golden axe' (now that it's no longer being worked on i would like to get something off my chest: i hate the name. 'the golden axe'... really? we couldn't do better than that? no me gusta.) anyway - it was the opening/establishing shot of the film - there were going to be some matte paintings and all sorts of nifty little artistic things with flavor that were going to make this movie cool. somewhere along the lines, the vision got lost - and therefore the movie lost momentum because it was no longer cool nor fun and blah. dead. anyway - i wanted to revisit that original shot that i could never really get down because of lack of knowledge (the first one i did, i didn't know you could animate a camera and i used position keyframes to make everything fly past the camera... it was sketch.) i feel i pretty much could go back and do that shot in about an hour as opposed to the original 10 or 11 hours i did the first time. i kinda played with the '300 effect' while crossing the bridge: the stupid little boy on the bridge is a place holder for the animated boy. also, i would probably change the timing as we approach the mountain so that it's not so fast. i sufficiently proved to myself though that i could easily do that shot if i were asked now which is nice because that means i have taught myself something. go team.