How to Create a flaming face of fire in After Effects

In order to be taken seriously in the world of motion graphics tutorials, one needs to teach something that everyone will remember… some kind of face distortion technique. Jerzy Drozda Jr has his "Form Face" and Andrew Kramer has his "Demon Face Warp," so the only thing that can possibly match those terrific After Effects tutorials is… FIRE.

In this After Effects tutorial, Laurence Grayson tries to succeed in making "the" AE tutorial with his "Flaming Face of Fire". This fire face effect uses the standard toolset in After Effects (CS3, CS4 & CS5) to create a face made out of flames for all your demonic-message-from-the-fireplace compositing needs.