Minecraft Animation issues

[vbcnxm]

While doing minecraft animation, I came upon a few problems. I can make a minecraft character, I can make a world, I can rig things, the whole kazoo! Any-who can anyone tell me how I can animate the water, like how it animates in minecraft, and how I can animate torches, the fire part of it I'm having trouble with that, anyone know how I can do it in autodesk maya (or anything that is compatible with it for that matter), and how can I add the creeper explosion in maya (as well as the bloating), thank you.

 

[BlockDesigns]

While doing minecraft animation, I came upon a few problems. I can make a minecraft character, I can make a world, I can rig things, the whole kazoo! Any-who can anyone tell me how I can animate the water, like how it animates in minecraft, and how I can animate torches, the fire part of it I'm having trouble with that, anyone know how I can do it in autodesk maya (or anything that is compatible with it for that matter), and how can I add the creeper explosion in maya (as well as the bloating), thank you.

Well, For the torch, I can only go on guess work as i use cinema 4d, But I would use whatever particle system is available in maya, And just rig it to the top of the torch, have multiple ones doing the different sized cubes. And then you could have a glowing material on the top, and then you could put it into the character null to make him hold it.