Final- Update

I had to switch around my plan for the Maya smoke effect. Instead of using a fluid box, I created a sphere that would emit smoke. It works fairly well, but I can't quite figure out the "sprite" deal. I don't quite understand anything google tells me. But I worked around it to make the default black boxes more transparent and so it's almost like smoke.

Now I am working on combining the two different images together using imageMagick. Hopefully it will work ok.