Watery Tentacles (Main) (Patreon)

Little short loop that I decided to make between animations. I wanted to do something with transparent tentacles, and figured that having them be "water tentacles" was the obvious solution. There's a couple of experimental things here, too. First, there weren't any water simulations on the water itself; it's just a flat plane subdivided several times, and using the "dynamic paint" option to simulate waves.

Secondly, for this video I went with 24 frames per second (as opposed to the usual 30) to try and save on frames during render time. I was going to put this through DAIN-App to increase it to 48 fps, but DAIN was putting some awful compression on it and I couldn't quite figure out how to resolve that, so it's stayed at 24. I think it looks okay, though in the future I'll probably just stick with 30.

I also ran the sound effects through Audacity to add some reverb.

I'd like to take the "water tentacles" concept a bit further, too, and maybe see if there's any way that I can incorporate a fluid sim so that the tentacle can be constantly dripping. But, considering how much trouble I have with fluid sims, that may or may not happen. At the very least, I want the hyena to have some water pouring out of his mouth. The tentacle IS going pretty deep.