Smoke text animation

In this video I show how to create a smoke text animation in After Effects and set it up as a reusable preset. The setup automatically adapts to any text or font size, so you can reuse it in different projects without rebuilding the animation. Everything is control-based, making it easy to adjust distortion, blur and colors to create different variations.

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