Model Credit: Rain Rig © Blender Foundation | cloud.blender.org

This animation was super fun to do! I wanted to create an idle animation similar to Valorants agent selection screen. And this time I wanted to add some cool effects to it. It was fun creating the poses for her especially the facial expressions. I wanted to give her a cool and confident look and I really think I nailed that with the body language and expressions. Also added subtle flickering lights to emulate a real fire.

I created the fire effect by following @therealblenderbox Procedural Cartoon Flames in Blender video tutorial. They explain things very easily for someone who is still fairly new to Blender. Especially the shader editor with all the different types of nodes that is very intimidating at first glance. I learned a lot from them and hopefully I can make more effects like this in future Blender projects.

Fire animation tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrswNZYiCo&t=19s&ab_channel=BlenderBox