An Upgraded Shockwave

After looking back at my energy blast I figured out that I could do a better job if I just researched in to how I could create a shockwave effect. So I went on to youtube and looked up some tutorials and found some that took me step by step through how to do this and the effect to me looked really realistic and there are no third party plug-in to create this effect in After Effects. To create this effect all I had to do was use the fractal noise effect and the masking tool, which started the initial blast off. Once I'd had the initial blast I then duplicated it a couple of times and change the contrast and timings of them so that there is more detail and randomness to the blast, after that I placed another effect called 'pola coordinates' which morphed the blast in to a circle to create a shockwave effect. Now that I had a shockwave I duplicated it two more times and changed the scale and rotation to make it a bigger and more effective shockwave, and then I added another effect called 'bulge' which gives off the effect of the shockwave expanding out or pulling itself in.

Above is my shockwave creation that I put together in After Effects, I feel like I could of experimented more with the timings of the shockwave exploding out but all in all I do like the final outcome of this and I especially like how the bursts out really fast and then just fades out towards the end just like a proper blast would do. I also like the colouring of the shockwave because I didn't really mean to make the shockwave that colour, it was initially black and white so I mush of pressed something I don't know but I like it because it looks like a energy shockwave. What I don't like about this shockwave is that it leaves like a blue ring after the shockwave and I don't really know how to get rid of it and it's really annoying, so I might have to go back and see if I can do something to change this.