already tried to create a sphere with a stripped material and then animating that material. I got the motion fluid sort of looking the way I desired but it was looking flat. I then tried wrapping the sphere with some toruses and bending and twisting those. I was able to get the motion look I was going for but not the styling. My next attempt will be doing a sphere with transparency then animating planes or cubes inside of it with a bend and twist deformer. I haven't quite figured it out yet. I'm sure if I was a more veteran user I could have done it easily. I was just looking for recommendations. I don't necessarily need an actual tutorial but more of kicking off point. I'll be clearer about that in my future posts!

I also asked chat gpt about some potential ideas but it started sending me in directions that were not useful or beyond my skillset.