Hello,
Normally I spent countless hours toiling over some ultra-detailed model, get burned out / bored with it, and thus I have an extensive library of unfinished projects. Over the weekend, I just started fooling around with something cartoonish that would finish rendering before retirement. 
What results is a highly tasteless, and poorly-animated tribute to Don Hertzfeld. It's pretty safe to say that it qualifies as NSFW. I'm just playing around a bit, not looking for any accolades, but there are a few things on this I'd like to add. The facial expressions / eye movement I just put together a few minutes ago, and is far from a finished draft. I'm looking for some ideas on a couple of points though:
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Iād like to see more splash in the erā¦ fluid, when it hits the āgroundā or the surface of the existing fluid. Iāve tried cranking the inflow velocity way up in the negative Z direction, which has the desired effect of a higher-pressured spray (more fluid in less time), but thereās no upward / outward spatter when it makes contact with another surface. The real-world size is roughly accurate, considering itās not a real-world scene. Iāve tried tweaking various aspects of the obstacle in play, and I canāt seem to create even a small upward splash, let alone the illusion of a high-pressure jet spattering against a surface. I suspect Iām missing something.
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Second, if anyone has actually seen the cartoon this refers to (āDon Hertzfeld - Rejectedā, Iām sure itās YouTubable), youāll see that the cloud characterās outline wiggles, and does not maintain a constant shape, since each cell of the hand-drawn animation is a bit different from the last. Iāve been experimenting a bit, but I wonder if anyone has any ideas on how to capture that āfeelā. Some ridiculously complex shape-keying is the only thing I can think of, but I have a fuzzy idea somewhere that maybe an animated displacement texture of some kind would capture it.
Hereās the youtube link to the animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3ATfg48kvE
Of course, please feel free to drive me away with torches and pitchforks for my utter absence of taste 