Animated textures not working?

I tried to make a tiki torch with flame particles spawning at the top but couldnt figure out how to define exactly where they spawned and couldnt find any tutorials for that so instead decided to make the torch have an animated flame texture, but that doesnt work either. I imported the texture and changed it in the block, nothing, tried reimporting the model again and defining its texture as the animated one, still nothing, so decided to ask on here :/