PocketMatrix

try lots of small lens flairs (make the lens flairs a layer in photoshop, and when your done placing them, use a reverse selection blox to delete all the lens refraction circles that arnt part of the engine exhaust). then use the spray paint tool with a transluscency effect like lighten/darken/screen to make the edges of the engine flairs bluish. cant say I recall the old effect in such detail.. but I think I could recreate it just by takeing a line of flairs and then molding them useing the spray paint/erase/blur tools.

Or you could use the "Glow" effect... Sounds like a lot less trouble to me.

moose, thats exactly what a low budget film would do.. because its easy and looks like crap. ;p

also glow requires that you allready have the inside flame burst created... glow only creates the silouet for the outside of the flame.

well... he's not making a full motion picture.

how would you know?

maybe you should try actually searching for this rather than asking on a pocket pc forum?

there might be something at theforce.net in the fan film section.

Just curious:

This kind of spaceship?