Here I shall demonstrate a fun little thing I can FINALLY start doing for future vids.
there is one thing I've felt my battle animations have been sorely missing, it's creating instances of blood and violence to make progressive damage over time. However before I could only use UV maps with planned out instances.. Now I can just literally pain the injury and do it that way thanks to Blender's Texture Paint tutorial.
It ain't prefect but it works! I think it'll make out future vids more enjoyable, after some practice. There are some injuries on this animation that make no sense, sense they were never touched.
For more comparison compare the clip at the start and the end :3