Need Help With 2D/3D animation idea...

Okay, so I’m trying to create a 3D cartoon animation using blender. This animation will have some combat/fighting scenes incorporated into the animation. The problem I’m having is trying to add certain 2D effects like many seen in videogames to my animation.

The thing is I’m not making a videogame, I’m just making a video, but I have no idea how to do such things like sword trails, magic glyphs, fireballs, stuff like that.

Is it even possible?

Moved from “General Forums > Blender and CG Discussions” to “Support > Particles and Physics Simulations” (depending on technique, the “Compositing and Post Processing” subforum would also be appropriate)