And here I made a stop to try to make a shot that looked like the 2D concept art reference I had. Sadly, Cycles doesn't support fire particles yet so, I ended modelling the flame that spits and made a material to reproduce the swirly fiery appearance from the concept art, no textures, all procedural ! It was really fun to mess with Nodes to force it to swirl like that! I think it was worth the time, because it demonstrates you can still make awesome things with Nodes without the need of weird hard to control particle systems :P
Digimon is (c) of Bandai & Akiyoshi Hongo