We've have had more issues with the spider rig. The bone orintation was off on one leg. I've made another video for harry to fix it with a custom Mel script.

We had more Gilches on the Green King, It was the same parenting constraint problem we had on the Jester. However Elaine could fix them this time the rig is looking good!

Harry used the tutorials I had and he has produced a good spider rig. I'm glad they helped him. We tried plenty of other pre-maid tutorials first but nothing had what we really wanted.

I've made more Video tutorials. These were for harry to help him build FKIK switchs for the spiders legs.




 tutorials.
www.conormoloney.com/FKIKleg01.mov
www.conormoloney.com/FKIKleg02.mov
www.conormoloney.com/FKIKleg03.mov
www.conormoloney.com/FKIKleg04.mov
www.conormoloney.com/FKIKleg05.mov

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.