This After Effects tutorial is an exercise to reverse engineer an animation that I have seen around the Internet (and hopefully I can find them and credit them).
Note: Design credit goes to Dave Whyte. You can find the original here: https://dribbble.com/shots/1696376-Circle-wave
In recreating this, it becomes a great exercise on how to combine different effects that, on their own, have limited function. But, combined (like a massive Voltron of effects) they become very powerful. This is this the first of many exercises like this that I’d like to reconstruct.
For a written version of the tutorial, go here:
http://www.graymachine.com/after-effects-tutorial-exercise-1-wave-displaced-circle/