Mesh Particle Emitter & Animation

Hey there, I have a character mesh that I have put a mesh particle emitter on. It comes out with a really cool sci-fi/ghost/hologram look that I want. I've read another thread saying that Unity doesn't support animation with the particle emitter - which is the problem I'm facing. I'm quite new to Unity, so if anyone could point me in the right direction of some kind of work around for this, or another method of achieving such a thing that would be amazing! Thanks :)