In this blog post, I show a screenshot of something made with After Effects CS5, using FreeForm (which comes with After Effects CS5): text made into ice that melts away. If you follow the links in that post, you can see a similar fire/lava result.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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