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Better to reference reality rather than other animations. Fortunately, YouTube is a good resource for this as found here: So as you can see, this has more to do with volume builders and solid shapes than with pyro blobs. You could start with two cylinders or two spheres, add a little randomness to their basic shapes so that they are not too perfect and then place them under a volume building. Now align both shapes exactly over each other and slowly animate them moving away from each other while at the same time keying down the connection radius in the volume builder to simulate the cells reconstituting as they pull apart (keyframes are set on the overall "Objects" menu under the volume builder). Just a thought. I hope this helps. Dave

Relative to the actor and writer's strike, then yes for US movies it will be a lean 2024 summer season for VFX in the big blockbuster movies simply because live action production had to shut down. But with that said, it will NOT be that bad for feature length CG animations because those movies are planned well in advance with voice acting talents locked down ahead of time. Not sure what the ratio is of reshoots (or re-rather rewrites) for a CG animation is relative to a live action movie but I would have to imagine it is a lot less. Therefore, I have a higher expectation for character animation in a 100% CG movie to be less impacted than for VFX animation in a live action film. So, anything from Marvel (given that their process depends on re-shoots as they actually budget for it more than most other companies) will be impacted. ....and of course, anything with a short development timeline (like advertising and TV) will be less impacted that anything with a longer development timeline (like movies, etc). Plus, there is streaming which can tap into global content not impacted by the strikes in the US. The only big summer 2024 summer blockbuster I would bet on would be MI: Dead Reckoning Part II simply because live action finished on that prior to the strike. Dave As an aside and not intended to derail this thread: Is lack of Marvel content during the summer of 2024 necessarily a bad thing? I only mention that given how poorly MCU's recent movies have been doing along with the rest of the movies coming from Disney: $1B loss in 2023 for all Disney films across all of Lucasfilm, Marvel and Pixar with bigger losses in Disney+ AND nothing to base a big Christmas 2023 toy campaign on. These missteps do not just impact movie revenue. The bigger golden goose getting killed by making movies no one wants to see is the toy market driven by these IP's. In fact, the initial strategy of Disney buying Lucasfilm and Marvel was because Disney (while strong in the toy market for girls with all their Disney Princesses) had no strong presence in the toy market for boys. So, they give a Star Wars reboot in 2015 with very little Luke and lots of Rey and kill Han off right away. Sorry, I just don't see a big draw for little boys to play with Rey action characters. What were they thinking? Also, word is that when the Mandalorian Season 2 ended with Grogu going off with Luke Skywalker, Hasbro was pumped!!! Now there was a toy merchandising opportunity: Luke training Grogu!!!! Pure gold. Nope, killed that quickly in the "Book of Bobba Fett". Hasbro was pissed as they pay a premium to Disney for the license to sell those toys and they have nothing to sell. On the Marvel side, they killed off Iron Man, turned Captain America into an old man, made She-Hulk stronger and more in control than The Hulk in "She Hulk", and made Thor look like a buffoon in "Thor Love and Thunder" in comparison to Lady Thor. So not much useable IP left in the toy market for boys from Marvel. I think Disney forgot their market and the simple fact that young boys are more likely to want to live vicariously through strong male oriented hero action characters. If that was not case, then Mulan would be selling like hot cakes into that market. Again, what were they thinking? But getting back to movies.... Anyone pumped up for the "Marvels"? Yeah....my point exactly. This movie is projected to tank badly (based on pre-ticket sales and theater bookings) well below the worst performing MCU movie which was The Hulk in 2008 ($264M worldwide gross). This probably explains why Kevin Fiege is already "soft" announcing a re-boot of the MCU ahead of "The Marvel's" release in November. These execs are realizing that they killed the golden goose in Phase 4 (also known as the "M-She-U"). I guess Disney stock price hitting a 10-year low can be a bit of a wake-up call. Well, that is what happens when you lose sight of your market. Not sure that is possible with SW or any other Lucasfilm property given current management. So how do you make a million-dollar franchise? Easy. Buy a billion-dollar franchise and give it to Kathleen Kennedy.