looking at flames

I looked at other peoples attempt to animate a flame in order to try and get the movement right. The flame above is different to how i want as i wanted to animate a lighter being sparked and the movement here is to crazy, like a lot of wind is blowing at it. research




Here i looked at how to get the shape and colours right on a flame, also how to do it using photo shop, although its very different to the one im using now. i new i would be drawing it mostly but wanted to still see how to get the colours within, how the blue is at the bottom where the most heat comes from. although in future knowing about the noise effect tool will come in handy when i get my head around my computer animated techniques in my work.