More Fire

Now that I've remembered how to create the basics for fire, I decided to go a bit further to add on to my experience from last year. The next part was surprisingly simple - creating the glow effect for the fire to make it look more realistic.

Using the video post editor, a lens effect glow is added to the fire.

This results in the fire glowing - much more realistic than having just a flame that looks like it has no heat or light. The settings needed to be adjusted to tone the brightness down a bit and the colour needed to be changed to give the above effect. It was also applied to every pixel so that it all glowed, but the edges could have also just glowed or an outline of light could have been applied.
To start off with, the fire had an extremely bright glow which was a pale yellow colour, which resulted in the sort of glow you would see emitting from a candle. So, unintentionally, I have learnt how to create an effective looking candle as well as a fire.

This is the render of the fire, placed on a black background to show what it would look like at night with a faint glow around the edges.