Return-Path: Received: from mail2.eqx.gridhost.co.uk ([95.142.156.3] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5458690 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:44:28 +0200 Received: from [82.69.32.195] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by mail2.eqx.gridhost.co.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WfC4M-0005vW-EO for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:43:50 +0100 Message-ID: <535FE4D2.2010609@vantagegraphics.co.uk> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:43:46 +0100 From: Mike Abbott User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: After Effects Mail List Subject: Re: [AE] cartoon smoke puff effect - shape layers References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gridhost-Auth2: mda@vantagegraphics.co.uk Here's another simple approach with shape layers. Built in a couple of minutes - so it definitely needs fine tuning... but it might get you started. http://goo.gl/xzUOi2 Mike A. -- Mike Abbott Vantage Graphics Ltd http://vantagegraphics.co.uk mda@vantagegraphics.co.uk