Re: fire body

so basicly everyone is saying i should use something like a particle system to cover my body to look like fire. in looking at a few fantastic 4 picture of the human flame he is pretty much engulfed in an orange fire like texture and a few flames that ripple off that. I was hoping to work with masks and rotoscoping because i feel more comfortable with in that dealing with many of lightsaber and star wars. moving onto a totally new perspective on how to pull off this effect. what techniques would be best way to turn body into that orange firey color and then add the ambince and noise to go along with it. would that still involve particle systems?

Jake