Here are some screenshots of the latest VFX that I have done for the upcoming Fratellis single. The video was directed by Dirty UK in London and shot in the spanish desert. I was charged with the task of creating an ethereal flaming F symbol. I chose to use hardware rendered particles rather than fluids to create the flame because of the very limited time and resources. Particles were emmited from an "F" object, and were effected by animated air and turbulence fields. Colour, Opacity and Mass decayed with lifespan. The aura was a fluid shape with an animated wispy noise coarsing through it (very quick to render). It was an interesting compositing challenge to create the look of flames in daylight yet not obliterate detail or colour with glare.
I would be very interested to hear of other techniques to acheive flame effects.

A small quicktime of FX shots can be downloaded from my site.

http://www.peterstenhouse.com/showreel/fratellis_cutdown_soren.mov