#motion graphics tutorial

Used simple rotation animation on plants and fingers with loopOut("pingpong") expression so they would keep rotating back and forth for eternity. Added CC Bend It effect to each of them and keyframed them to bend a little. Pre-composed.

To make the smoke, I made a new composition and created a simple triangle. And applied these effects to it:

Grow bounds - Pixels 150;

Wave warp - Wave type Sine; Wave Height 100; Wave Width 200, Direction ~+69; Wave speed 0.5; Pinning - Left edge (make sure you pin it on the side where you want the smoke to come from);

Wave Warp 2 - Wave Type Circle; Wave Height 100; Wave Width 300; Direction ~+106; Wave speed 0.2; Pinning Left Edge;

Bezier Warp to distort the shape even more, adjust as needed;

And I slapped this smoke pre-comp on my main comp like it was nothing.

Overall effects I used on Adjustment layer over the whole project:

Noise - Amount 5%;

Posterize time - 12;

Roughen Edges - Border - 2; Edge Sharpness 5; Fractal Influence 1; Scale - 1000; Complexity 2;

Turbulent Displace - Amount 2; Size 100; Complexity 1;

Turbulent Displace 2 - Amount 30; Size 2; Complexity 2;

Used path animation for morphing, so I don't really know what I can add to that. Maybe I should record my screen while doing that.

Anyway that cool retro TV effect can be achieved by stacking these effects on Adjustment layer over the whole project:

Posterize time - 12;

Roughen Edges - Border - 2; Edge Sharpness 5; Fractal Influence 1; Scale - 100; Complexity 2;

Turbulent Displace - Amount 2; Size 100; Complexity 1;

Turbulent Displace 2 - Amount 30; Size 2; Complexity 2;

Gaussian Blur - Blurriness 8;

Sharpen - Amount 100;

Quick Chromatic Aberration 3 (free plugin) - Distort Aberrate 1% (Under 'Stylistic');

Noise HLS Auto - Grain; Lightness 5%; Grain size 2;

Animated changing colors by adding Gradient Ramp effect on the letter.

I also used wiggle(12,2) expression on the letters Position so it would kind of jitter around as things do in old TV tapes.