This I created using a morph editor to morph me into a small bucket, then I used the video overlay features of my video editor to overlay the morph sequence on to the background which is a picture of my basement.
I made this one by using the circle wipe feature of the video editor's transition effects, but I used scenes of the couch with and without me on it to give the illusion that I was vanishing in a circular pattern. I then added the red plasma-like illusion to each individual frame with an image editor. Finally I overlayed a laser beam that I also drew with the image editor.