I'd thought that I wouldn't manage a blog post for another 4 months due to college, but here it is!  As a student, I now have access to Adobe After Effects (even though technically I didn't have to get it).  After Effects is a professional special effects tool, and from a few brief tutorials I was even able to do something myself... The technical details: First, I made the fire in Blender using the Quick Smoke function on a completely green background.  After that and much struggle in After Effects, I managed to put the green background with fire (or, to abbreviate and make things more confusing, GBw/F) into the live-action bit and greenscreened it:  Search for "keying," drag & drop "Keying-green blur" onto the GBw/F, select the screen color with an eyedropper tool, and there we are!  Except that I couldn't seem to render it in anyway, save having it only open in a web browser, the fire still having the background and therefore covering a g