This is a quick motion graphic I created give hipster props to Kalimar, one of our developers.
The original graphic was created in Illustrator and then brought into After Effects for the animation.
You can learn these same techniques I used by watching these two great tutorials:
This is the story of a fake “Forensic Image Analysis” effect I created to pin the blame for some recent office pranks on my colleague, Kalimar. My faked police scanning effect was accompanied by doctored-up emails of my conversations with a local Fairfax detective in which he explains that modern CCD cameras actually capture a small amount of infrared light that can be extracted with their advanced forensic photography analysis. This set up the idea that the Prankster would be unmasked by this new image scanning technology!