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Can anybody please point me in some kind of direction for animating blood/tears/whatever dripping down the surface of a mesh? Maybe particularly the "correct" method a studio would actually use?

I've tried a few approaches now that all fail for one reason or another. Dynamic paint in vertex mode doesn't look good/can't figure out how to do it over an existing texture/requires adding >9000 subdivisions to still look bad.

Dynamic paint as image sequence seems like it would be the would be the way to go when I use it on a plane but when I try to do it on a characters face it just makes a tiny little splotch that doesn't move with the brush at all.

Someone suggested texture paint but I have this weird problem when I try to paint on an existing texture where the color shows up black and white and doesn't appear in rendered view- a problem that can only be mitigated by painting on a solid color and plugging the image texture in afterwards. More importantly than that I don't see how I can record my brush strokes to make the thing actually animate.

This seems like such a basic thing that it's impossible to find information on?

Duarte Farrajota Ramos
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    https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/62843/ink-on-porous-paper-or-water-bleed-effect/ https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/79683/simulate-a-sticky-fluid-in-blender https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/45374/how-can-i-model-ultra-viscous-dripping-wet-objects – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Jun 10 '19 at 01:36

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I think it depends by the style you are looking for. In my old Tarantella animation (the very last scene), I used a mesh deformed by a shape key. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_R3QssuG9g

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