Those were good movies. I ported this tutorial over to After Effects pretty well. There were some things in AE that didn’t work like they do in Photoshop, but that’s where blatant copying leads to creativity.
You just pan/tilt the camera the same direction on two shots and then in post blend them together during the pan/tilt. You’re dreaming if you think that anything you do with your buddies could approximate looking that good. They probably had some computer controlled robot camera that can pan at the same speed every time.
Your best bet is to put a lot of motion between your shots so that the cut point gets lost in the confusion.
We don’t really have much to comment on. I think the longest segment was the throwing star bullet thing which looked alright except for the red glow. That was a little hokey.
Maybe I’m missing something. Why not just get a camera, a slide projector and a guy and leave out all that keying, light transmission, stained glass effect, displacement based on luma junk?