Best way to make my scene come to life

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I’ve got a fantastically made menu for my game by a wonderful UI artist, but it’s very static and I want to add some animation to it to make it more interesting. Here is the screen as it is right now.

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The character is animated but I’d like the background to look animated by adding a little fogthat will play with the spotlight that I have on the character. Like the Diablo III character creation screen:

It has fog and the light moves in the fog.

I should mention that my graphics are all 2D (with the exception of the character). So what you’re seeing above is a static backgroud with the 3D character in front. I think maybe a particle effect for fog would work but I don’t know if it would play off the light. Any thoughts?

Secondly, when someone clicks on the race icons on the left right now it just switches the graphic from the pale blue color to a glowing color but I don’t want it to switch from state A to state B instantly, I’d like to turn on a glow that

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Your plans sound great. I would add some transitions to the buttons as you mouse over them. I might scale them up and fade in a drop shadow behind so it appears to pop out from the rest. You could also add a particle effect on selection/deselection.