Gromit's PunishmentM

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This animation i've always wanted to finish for a very long time, ever since 2020 when i started it in SFM originally. The thing that was frustrating me was how the audio of the song The Electric Hellfire Club - Violence is Golden didn't pick up whilst importing it in the audio/dialog timeline. So i had to fuck around in Audacity and change the Sample Rate to a lower number so i'll play, alas it didn't. So i thought that I had no other choice but to switch to Pragma Filmmaker which was in a Alpha/Beta stage and it kept crashing, (the audio did work tho). So I thought the final option was to switch to Blender considering that it has all the correct plugins that I need and it's mostly reliable compared to other 3D software i've used. It has support for DAZ 3D, Source, everything. But Blender still needs time getting used to tho.

This is my first animation in Blender as i was transitioning from SFM considering that it's obsolete by now (I've used Blender before but only for animation tests and porting my 3D models from DAZ Studio). I decided to use it after i heard about the SourceIO plugin which imports and converts Source mdl and maps in a click of a button which is very timesaving and reliable compared to transfering models using software like Crowbar back in the day.

This took more time than i expected to make since I was learning some things about it as i was going along, like the blood drip and the puke chunks using the fluid plugin. The Fluid plugin really takes alot of time to bake regarding how small your shape is and how high the resolution you make it. (I've had mine at 500 which took longer but produced the best results to an extent.) The liquid effects I'm still figuring out with a combination of AI YT tutorials from years ago haha, so the fluid i generated was not up to my expectations when i was trying to frankenstein the settings but it's close.. Close but no cigar. There's always room for improvement. Hopefully my upcoming animations don't take as long as this one.