Blood Catapult VFX

I wanted to delve a bit into liquid effects and blood magic. Started playing around with shaders and ideas just started rushing in, and eventually evolved into this Blood Catapult! Hope you like it!
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FX created in UE4's Cascade. I used Houdini to create the main blood splash and baked it to extract Ambient Occlusion and Alpha Maps. The rest of the textures are hand-painted. Tentacle modeled in 3DsMax and animated in Maya.