How do I turn the moment vanilla ice cream drips off a cone into a meaningful UI transition in Unity?

Ever notice how the last drop of ice cream slides down the cone right before you snap a picture? It's like the game loop's final frame before it hands you the credits. I caught myself thinking that the drip is basically a "state exit" in the Animator – you go from the "FullCone" state to "Dripping" and then to "Empty".

• The "FullCone" animation could be a looping blend tree of the swirl texture, low‑freq noise for the creamy surface.
• "Dripping" would be a single‑frame event, triggered by a Parameter called isMelting set to true once the temperature variable (yeah, the ambient temp from UnityEngine.Random.Range) crosses ~22°C.
• Finally "Empty" is just a static sprite with a faint gloss to imply remnants, akin to a game over screen that still glimmers.

I’m kinda stuck on how to map the physical timing – the drip takes about 0.8 s in real life, but my default transition length is 0.2 s. Should I just stretch the animation curve, or is there a better way to bake the physics into the Animator Controller? Also, any thoughts on using a custom Shader Graph node to simulate the melt gloss? I feel like I'm overthinking a simple sundae, but maybe that’s the point…?

Sorry if this reads like a weird dessert‑theory combo – just trying to make my UI feel as organic as actually eating ice cream.