Fire Effect for a Fantasy Project

[Nudist Elegan]

Hi there,

15 years ago me an some friends of mine worked on a corny little fantasy project (http://www.candlekeep.com/library/articles/tdod.htm) that was never really finished. I am now working to restore one scene of that project to use it a a template for my film music compositions. Although I am making good progress in re-cutting and dubbing that scene, I am still lacking a visual fire effect for one very short sequence and don't how to implement that kind of vfx.

Here is that short sequence:

Do you know any small tool/program (best free- or trialware) to quickly create some kind of a ray of fire (until 0:04) and some gout of flame (from 0:04 on) around these little monsters? It doesn't has to look particularly good, it just has to be recognizable.

If you want to try it yourselves, I've uploaded the sequence to dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/op1crkcjxkv1ezi/Feuerzauber-Effekt.avi?dl=0

Best regards and many thanks in advance

Dustin Edited June 29, 2017 by Nudist Elegan

[Ryan Constantino]

I see this is an older post, but Film Riot did a tutorial for something like this on youtube once: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gUc3wFrN1g