Sauron’s eye icon, from The Lord of the Rings Conquest.
The idea of an all-watching flaming eye has always been cool to me, and being a fan of The Lord of the Rings it was about time to animate something related to it. The lava look was a pretty cool detail.
To make this “lava” effect I used Particular, Fractal Noise, Simple Choker, Roughen Edges, and Echo that I learned from a French tutorial I stumble upon some days prior. Pretty sly tutorial.