Creative Dojo shows how to use Displace in Adobe After Effects to animate type efficiently.

This new tutorial from VinhSon Nguyen (Creative Dojo) shows how to split up and animate a single line of type in Adobe After Effects using the Displace Effect, working on black and white images. 

Nguyen says the tutorial is a great beginner lesson on how maps work in After Effects and how to use layer maps to drive animation.