Breaking up with your significant other tends to leave you frothing at the mouth - and wondering what the hell to do with all those hours you'd carved out of your professional life, that all of a sudden seem very empty.

In my case, once I'd finished drunkenly showing up outside her house and watching High Fidelity for the seventeenth time, I decided to make a short movie as a cathartic exercise in further exploring After Effects. It might have 'worked', or maybe it was just taking so long to render each test file that time did its work. All hail the return of my sanity!