After Effects Assessment

When shooting the test footage we shot several shots that can allow for different effects in after effects like teleporting, fire balls and lighting. We had to reshoot a shot with Matts hand because Matts hand moved out of the cameras view. In after effects I did a flame coming out of Matts hand this wasn't very difficult because the video I found on youtube was easy to follow and easy to understand, next time I make a fireball I think I could do it without the tutorial video because it was quite simple. It was hard to try and get smoke to follow the flame with the tracker I wasn't sure how to add it to the flame so instead I put the smoke from when the flame get ignited and extinguished.
In all I didn't find after effects that difficult to use and add the fire effect to the video even thought the tracker was a bit fiddly to get right, if I didn't have the video to help me I think I would of struggled quite a bit, things to improve on in after effects is not relying on the video too much try and teach my self how to do some of the effects and learn how to make the effects look better and more realistic like adding a glow to the flame.