After Effects Advanced Animation

Untitled from Brent Borochoff on Vimeo.

For this video, I utilized the graph editor to manipulate the time of the fly-out of the first group of spaceships. They are moving at a constant speed until near the end when they fly out faster. I then created a null object and "lasso whipped" three separate "debris items" (also known as parenting.) Because of this, I was able to edit each item (rotate, etc) while moving all of the debris items (position and rotation) with the null object.