I'm getting abuse off family members about changing to an All green profile in support of CG animators getting under paid. Its a slightly silly cause, a real 1st world problem! but I wanted to be supportive. Some facebook post are starting to look very green.

http://www.conormoloney.com/FW_Presentation04.mov

Sahara Grossman won the ffresh award and fair play to her, I hope it raises awareness of her game and sell a few more copies of Master Reboot.

Hopefully I'll be better prepared for ffresh next year with Form Wars.

Above is a link to the movie I used for my pitch to the sound students to try and find a sound effects artist. Unfortunately we didn't get one but we now have a 2nd composer to create the sound track for the game.

Dissertation time! I have to say I've enjoyed writing it and researching it. I've written mine on Ludology. However it has been very time consuming and I really need more time for Form Wars.
The Dissertation research has been a great help with thinking about "Form Wars" as a game, I've learnt a lot about game balance, imperfect balance and other stuff I need to consider to keep the game interesting. We have enough talent to keep it looking pretty but that doesn't make it a game game!

I've had to re-rig the jester model, unfortunately Elaine's rig has a lot of problems. I spent 3 hours picking it apart only to find the knot I was trying to unravel was really a labyrinth. The problem was a lot of controls were parent constraint to each other when regular parenting would have done. I hope Elaine won't be disheartened by me taking over this rig, it was a simple mistake to make and we are all here to learn!

Elaine is going to add some branches to the Green King Rig for Form Wars. I think this will look good in the animation. Harry has been having trouble rigging spider legs in Maya, He is new to Maya. I'll have to see can I find him some good tutorials.
We had another house viewing today, I think they are going to take it.... Hopefully, we seem to be constantly cleaning.

http://uk.gamespot.com/jack-vs-ninjas/videos/jack-vs-ninjas-official-trailer-6403433/

Jack vs Ninjas is finally here! Now to steal someones iPhone to play it on. My phone is so old it has a keypad with buttons. I will have to bully family and friends into playing it. I must say the Lads did a great Job it looks really good, I'm proud to have my name on it =D

An update on the Form wars Artwork from Pierre. Pierre has only been a 3D artist for 1 year he was previously an animator and has work is really really good. Now that the witch doctor is coloured it is looking great, I'm pleased I hope he is too.

5th February

The jester rig seems to be nearly done, I'm just waiting to hear final word on it.

Meanwhile Jack vs ninjas was posted Yay! now to find a link to it >.<

Yay! Jack vs Ninjas is finished and will be released for iPhone soon. As part of my 2nd year project I collaborated on JvN and created the Panda Character form Daniel Joseph's design. I had great fun on this project and I'm looking forward to seeing the Panda in action