flame features

As part of my work on movies and television shows through the past dozen years, I've developed a range of special effects that focus specifically on fire.  For the science fiction hit Men In Black, for example, I was charged with devising the flame-spewing weapons wielded by Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in a spectacular scene in which they shoot down a flying saucer.   That system involved a range of safety issues along with devising a specially formulated fuel (alcohol mixed with various metals) to create blue flames as well as a combination of inert gases and electronic control systems that were used to extinguish the fire and protect the actors.  As is the way with so much in Hollywood, an on-screen sequence that lasts just a couple of seconds took my team