Don't know if this will help, but this is a splash I made in about an hour with metaballs and one negative and one positive torus booleaned together for the sides of the splash. You can probably see how it's made by looking at the wireframe.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy