Burning Embers,coal, Or Ambers

[sheriff808]

I've created a company logo that has exploded and now I'm looking at the aftermath. I would like to take the debris and texture it black with a random glow of red embers. Kind of a burning charcoal effect. I'm so new at this VFX stuff, I'm not sure where to begin. Fluids? Paint tool? Projections? Textures? Your thoughts?

[bjohnston]

This would be accomplished through the shader. You could create one from scratch or maybe use the Lava shader on Highend3D as an example. Should do the trick quite nicely.