VinhSon Nguyen from Creative Dojo.net looks at creating radiant heat waves by using a simple displacement map in After Effects. Check out Creative Dojo for the after effects displacement map for heat waves tutorial here.

VinhSon Nguyennotes on his tutorial: “In this tutorial, I answer some of the questions I got on the Displacement Map effect and how to use it. With the displacement map, you can create many different effects such as heat waves for a desert or flame.”