A lot of the feedback we got from people who played Cletus Clay at Eurogamer last year made it clear that you wanted to see more variety in our aliens. We are listening, and we are currently working on creating additional squishy pink extraterrestrial lovelies for Cletus and his brother Emmet to pummel.

As with a lot of our models, the alien is animated in sections: we have alien body animations, alien head animations and alien weapon animations. To add some variety we are concentrating on giving some of the aliens different head types.
To achieve this we are using a mixture of Photoshop wizardry and new clay models. For example, Mr One-Eyed-Alien (third from the left) was created using the original alien head and some Photoshop work. The head with the segmented eye stalks (second from the left) was created using part of the original alien head and new clay eye stalks that were photographed and digitally added.

Anthony is very keen that the alien heads are different enough to provide variety, but similar enough to make it clear that they are all part of the same Alien race. For example, Mr Three-Eyed-Alien (fourth from the left) is perhaps a bit too different from his Alien brethren and so probably won’t make the cut.

Anthony and Sarah are both brainstorming to come up with as many different and weird looking alien heads as possible. Not all of them will make it into the actual game as only the very best will receive the Anthony seal of approval.

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