I'm setting up a Medieval scene and would love to add some flaming torches and such to the background. Can this be done in Poser? I'm also considering rendering the flame in another app and adding it in post production with After Effects (or something similar). Or just adding it with AE (I seem to recall it has a flame effects filter of some kind). Also, the fire doesn't need to be super realistic -- I'm going for a cartoon look. Any suggestions or tutorials out there?

One clever member posted a fire demo here a couple of months ago. It looked like it was a ball with ambient settings to make it glow, and it had a couple of warped planes (for lack of a better word) spinning through it. It was impressive! You may have trouble if the camera angle changes, but as long as you remember to rotate the "flame planes" to be on edge to the camera, you should be okay.

Check nerd's site, Nerd 3D. He has an animated campfire prop in his Freebies section. It might not be exactly what you're looking for, but it should give you some idea of how to proceed.

Thanks for the campfire tip. I'll open it up and see how it works.