After turning out hundreds of animation frames of the aliens performing all kinds of actions, this week I spent some time working on things for them to do while doing nothing. Because at the moment, when they do nothing, they really do nothing. They just stand there, and maybe blink a bit.

I hadn’t really given much thought to what they would do when they were doing nothing. I assumed they would be pretty busy doing stuff most of the time. But it turns out that it’s actually desirable for them to be idle quite a lot of the time, at least when they aren’t actively pursuing the player. Otherwise they just tend to pace around the place in a fairly unnatural-looking way. Either that or they just stand there, blinking.

So this week I got out the old alien model and added some fearsome new moves to their repertoire. Now the Aliens have such fancy moves as flexing their hands, folding their arms, putting their hands on their hips, gesticulating, and scratching their arses.

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