The Flashback sequence was a less hassle than I hoped for. I already had a custom pack full of effects. But this time around, I cranked up the white glow, desaturated the entire pallet and voila a poor man’s version of a anime style flashback sequence was born. An inspiration for this scene was the opening sequence of the anime Nooragami
For the face being slashed I had to animate it frame-by-frame in 2s and went very abstract with the cutting of limbs/tissues.
After applying glow and a blood splatter the effect was achieved quite easily. As for the second part of the flashback, I had to create a foreground, riddled with skeletons, while the city in the back had a to be distorted and a heat wave loo was created in after effects to give a burning effect. I added a bit of fire flames as well, but kept them in colour as red,blue, grey, orange and yellow are the repeating colours.
Arsalan Awais 