Smoke for Moe

Moe’s film will be needing smoke effects for fire. I been playing around with effects and particles and managed to get this:

It looks great and is tinted red by the default fire paint effect (which will be replaced by my own later on) but this simply takes too long to render so I’ll have to look up on another method of smoke. The shot above took 20 mins for the frame- and it hadn’t even finished! The smoke would be composited onto the film but I think I’ll have to find another approach- its too slow!