Once the video starts playing you will see an HQ button.  Clicking that looks better.  I have a High Def version on YouTube as well but it doesn't stream as well as I would like it to.

This is one of the first things I made with After Effects CS3 (so don't beat me up too bad).    The animated 'creature' is a Robotic dog made from the Lego Mindstorm NXT robotic kit.  This 3D version was made in Swift 3d 5.0

The movie starts out with a "Blue print" and a mesh wireframe of the dog spinning around.  I used Swift 3D to make the wireframe and then saved the files out as multiple .AI files, one for each frame.

After Effects can read in the files in as one composition (as long as they are number sequentially which they were).  The 'best' reason for doing this is that if Swift 3D crashes you can just start at the last frame file made.

The Blue Print background was made in Photoshop with a blue texture I made after playing with it a bit.   The 3d effect of zooming out and panning comes from After Effects.

The REAL 3D robot that crashes through is also Swift 3D made.  I have other animations of the Robot but it is a little 'heavy" in the number of polygons used.   No exciting animation here it just crashes through the blue print.

The "shatter" I made came from the Shatter effect in After Effects.

The second half of the advertisement is basically one Photoshop PSD file with a bunch of pictures on it in rows and columns. The 3d'ish effect where they move around comes from After Effects Card Wipe effect.

The DIFFERENCE is that some of the cards are playing video.  What I did was embed the Photoshop composition in a new composition and I resized a couple of videos in place of the static pictures.  I then used the new composition and applied the Card Wipe effect on it.

I don't believe that the Card Wipe was ever intended for video but it worked well.  The Card Wipe also allows for a background image so that when the cards turn over they show that image.   I used the Storming Robots logo for that.

Over all not 'bad' for a first timer I think.   I had 8 days to finish it and get it to CBS Outernet for production.