hoshimidori

A simple trick is to batch rename everything that is .tiff to .tif

The newer AE reads these as two different things and I've fixed many problems going from Houdini to AE by just doing this.

An animation project I am on involves a dog running across a lake made of jello. As it runs, the jello is kicked behind it in giant ripple/waves. Also, the lake reacts to wherever its feet are while standing or walking, dipping in a few inches. At one point the dog rolls into a ball and as it rolls, it pushes up huge waves on the lake surface that then merge together into a tunnel that it rolls through.

Any ideas on the best way to approach this? I've thought of using flip fluids, or running particles along a path, merging them, then skinning the entire thing.

How would you go about this project?