I kinda sidetracked myself on the poss monster sequence by trying to get the background parallax effect looking as good as I could.

I had to upload it as an MP4 because the optimized gif was 640 frames and over 15 MB, so you can be sure the final sequence won't have movement anywhere near as extreme or as smooth :p

But I think it looks really cool so I wanted to get a nice smooth version exported for posterity.

Update – I was experimenting with different methods of panning the parallax layers and Saz suggested I add a "shake" effect for damage. This also shows of the "pivot pan", which pans the background and foreground in opposite directions to give the impression that the camera is rotating around a pivot point.