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I got a lot done this week. I animated the bumble bear with a static, sting, shoot stinger, and a die animation. The character has very small functionality so it didn't need to much and the animations aren't complex since the character is very small. I also finished the dragon rig. It took a bit of research on IK splines since I haven't used them yet in my rigs but it ended up really nice. It now has controls for the wings with pole vectors to allow flapping - top and bottom mouth controls, and the tail is rigged for a good fluid swing. I created a set of 2D faces for the HUD to change expressions for whatever action is happening. I made the spike and stingers with collision boxes so that we could get rid of the arrows that are currently used when the snail and bee shoot their parts.

The only thing I didn't finish that I was scheduled for was the binding of the costumes that James made to the enemy character. This is only because myself, chris, and jon have all been working to get the fbx export  to work but it keeps coming up with different errors. We followed all the steps that worked for the goblin model to the T so I think I may need to redo the rig and animations for that character. It is probably an issue with history or that the skeleton is bound to 2 meshes. We are going to give the export a little more work before I restart the rig and animations. Last but not least I designed the end of game boss level.

This week I have a lot to do. I designed the boss level with the dragon so I could get started on the animations. I only did a basic platform design so this week I will make it good with lamp designs, boxes, a catapult, stain glass windows, balconies, pillars, climbable flags, and a breakable chain. Then I need to get the collision meshes for all the important spots of the level. I will also begin on the animations for the dragon but they are pretty extensive so I don't think I will get them all done. Below are all the animations that I need to add to the goblin and the Dragon. Since this is more of a priority then the enemy I will work to knock all these out before the moving on to the re-rig.

Goblin

another die animation

slat against the wall

take a seat in the catapult

Dragon

triple fire blast

tail swipe

bite

4 second wing blast

regular fire blast

epic fire blast

down ward fire blast

body slam

knock out static

static

hit by lamps

rear up and slam with two front feet

die animation