Total Training has opened the vault to free some classic tutorials by Brian Maffitt with a comprehensive tour of the Shatter plug-in. Brian says that...
Spirals are used as design guides and elements or paths for text, shapes, and particles. Here's a few resources for using and creating spirals in After...
Angie Taylor posted a quick tip on Wrapping text around a circle in After Effects.
There's another intro tutorial on the "newer" way to do path text here...