After Effect Text Smear Project - Text Smear and Displacement Effect

In this tutorial series, I will show you how you can create text smear effect with all the details, all done procedurally inside After Effects without any plugins. Feel free to download project file from Gumroad for free to follow along: This is 2nd out of 3 tutorials. Tutorial no 1 is here: Tutorial no 3 is here: This will be more technical and expression heavy tutorial than other 2. However, once you build this rig, you will be able to turn it into templates very easily. In this tutorial, we will create actual text smearing effect. Then we will: - Add displacement to it to make it more interesting - Animate displacement - Build resizable matte for Displacement with expressions - Add Gradient Ramp to apply grayscale to whole effect - we will use this in tutorial no 3 to add colour 00:00 - What we will make 00:16 - Precomp text layer 00:28 - CC Scale Wipe - smear effect 00:45 - Potential problems 01:03 - How we will