http://www.cletusclay.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:07:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.cletusclay.com/2010/03/11/snazzy-new-aliens/ Sarah is back in the office having given a talk at Animex, the international animation festival. She remembered to breathe whilst on stage so didn’t pass out, and her audience were real gems so she had oodles of fun.There was a prize draw at the end of her talk where ... http://www.cletusclay.com/2010/02/11/sarah-survives-animex/ Having spent the last few months writing the Cletus team’s blog posts I’ve now been asked to give my first talk at Animex, the International Festival of Animation and Games. Held at Teeside University, Animex is a mixture of speeches, workshops exhibitions and screenings from all areas of animation, including ... http://www.cletusclay.com/2010/01/28/sarah-speaking-at-animex/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"][/caption] Happy New Year everybody! I've been back-and-forth a bit on the subject of the game's music for a long time. I had recorded a few tracks a long time ago; mostly raucous bluegrass-inflected stuff as you might expect, but I don't want to simply do the obvious thing. ... http://www.cletusclay.com/2010/01/06/musical-musings/ So, the Tuna people are off for a short holiday, possibly in the traditional Christmas snow. Meanwhile, here in New Zealand, the start of the Christmas season brings the first of the really nice weather as summer finally starts to kick in properly. I'm going to try to resist the ... http://www.cletusclay.com/2009/12/22/merry-cletus/ Have a look at the graphics for one of the minigames... running on a clay arcade cabinet! Well, sort of - this is just a mock-up for now. Because the hands are seen in greater detail than they are in the rest of the game I had to experiment ... http://www.cletusclay.com/2009/12/10/clay-arcade/ Because you are all so special, we have some pre Christmas treats for you all. We have uploaded two new Cletus Clay videos to YouTube and are releasing some shiny new screenshots. The first is a ‘Making of’ video featuring Anthony Flack talking through the process of getting our clay ... http://www.cletusclay.com/2009/12/03/new-cletus-clay-videos-and-screenshots/ Now roll out 2 even smaller balls. These are going to be the bottom claws. Once your bottom claws are made you can attach them. Now you can put the legs together. To make sure they are relatively strong, blend the clay together underneath the arm. The smallest arm ... http://www.cletusclay.com/2009/11/26/how-to-make-a-cletus-clay-crab-part-2/ After my workshop at the Bradford Animation Festival I thought it would be a good idea to pop up a tutorial for making a crab. This was something my lovely students seemed to enjoy making and were able to put their own creative stamp on their crab design, we ... http://www.cletusclay.com/2009/11/18/how-to-make-a-cletus-clay-crab-part-1/ Check us out! Just before Eurogamer this year we were visited by the BBC pixies here at Tuna. During Eurogamer we made it on to the BBC Look North section on the BBC news. Aren’t we a pretty bunch. We had a total blast at Eurogamer this year. ... http://www.cletusclay.com/2009/11/13/cletus-clay-on-the-bbc-at-eurogamer/