I don't think your choice of effects aren't blending well with the render. The backround is just making it more odd looking, seeing how the color of the backround isn't complementing the render well to me.
You have a point, your edit looks a lot better since it brings out his expression better, but maybe its a lil too dark since you can barely see the bg and such.
I'm on a page about incorrect corrections, and spent the better part of like two hours trying to get someone to understand that -5^2 = -25, not 25, and then that post had comments get reposted because that group is self sustaining, and that person was in turn trying to explain what I just explained to them. And I'm taking that as a victory
I will be AFK for a couple of days you guys hold down the fort while I am gone. I will be checking in on my phone but that will severly limit me. Be back saturday!
I just got to watch the video because even though I was there I was trying to work out tech problems with the chat since I was the social media guy so I was distracted but check it out guys the video is super fucking great!