This also is done with ImageFX.

I don't remember what the point was anymore.  Someone was referring to having been wasted for a long time, so the idea of this was a sobriety test.  "How many fingers am I holding up?"

I like the basic effect, but I will keep redoing this for a while.  Something is just not quite right, but I'm not sure exactly what.

For those of you who are into this kind of thing, this is just a hand, animated through a progressing motion blur convolve, then composited through an alpha layer to get the grainy look.

This is the alpha layer, I kind of like it by itself.  Alpha Layer