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RaDjuh,

Actually the animation is very simple (once you see it done, that is) although the effect is very fine. To me the effectiveness lies in the skill of the foreground images. Each of them are opaque images with various areas of degrees of transparency. In a PS stack they are the top layer. Beneath them is a layer of a smoke effect or something very similar. That is duplicated a number of times and then each subsequent layer is moved a number of pixels progressively. In each of  the images you've provided the 'smoke' layer is moved in different directions, laterally, diagonally, or in a circular motion.

Once you have the Photoshop file complete, jump to Image Ready and use the Animations palette. Create the number of frames you wish and then select the layers you wish to show in each frame by toggling visibility in each of the layers. All the frames would have the top (main image) layer visible but each would have a different smoke layer visible.

A couple of good smoke tutorials are...

http://www.deviantart.com/view/9961640/

http://www.tutorialguide.net/smoke_effect_tutorial.html