Thank you all for the warm messages and wishes. I'm felling a bit better now well, time will heal this too...I hope. You never forget a loss but you learn to keep on moving.
The animation is currently rendering, it's a bit over 5500 frames. There's 2 days left for it to finish and then I'll add the audio. I spent some time trying to make a new c*m shader. Added some bubbles to it to make it more realistic but its was a lot of effort, with many trial and error re-bakes. That alone took me 1.5 days with 2 hours of sleep...on the desk!
I've added some extra cameras and props to the scene to fill some empty spaces (the gif is without the props).
Tomorrow I'll make a poll for the christmas animation character, I'll only add a few characters 3-5. I know I've reduced the number of polls but I'll try to bring them back.
That's it for today. Now I can finally catch some zzzs. I missed my bed.