The After Effects 1.0 interface

Found on IF THEN ELSE, a blog by Eduardo Morais, is a screen shot of an After Effects 1.1 project (scaled down here). A Time Layout or Timeline window like Infini-D and Electric Image didn't appear until version 2. Note the sheep icon on the Time-Comp, Layers, and Properties palettes. A failed render would make AE ("CoSA" in San Francisco) bleat a goatish "maa" which you can still hear by Shift-clicking on the layer name in Effect Controls. The reason for the early codename "Egg" is a closely guarded secret.

Update: Splash screens and disc picts were noted earlier in After Effects is 15 (Photoshop is 18); a shot of the 1.0 discs were posted by melorama. BTW, AE 1.1 later shipped as After Image, which no one wanted to use after seeing version 2 (hardware key dongle or not).

Update: There's more AE history in posts labelled CoSA, and here's a piece from InfoWorld August 1992...