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I've worked on the hatching animation more, here's a list of stuff that's been done:
-simplified the animation: more up to the point, symmetric, inspired by current in-game egg animation. Stays within bounding box.
-changed egg core rig to allow for mesh compression: used it to hide the egg after spawn and added a bit of stretch&squash in movement
-added gib mockups (stretching texture, nothing spectacular, but should give the idea. Didn't want to put too much time into it at this stage)

AVI available here

I think the gibs could look really nice if they had a rendered texture from fluid simulation with a few frames of animation on it, we could use normals and speculars on it, wouldn't have this fuzzy feeling of particles. I'm not sure if I want to go into it deeper at the moment, though, since I've never done SFX, and may end up locked in with a long, experimental, unusable piece of animation that's going to be ditched in the end.

Looks good! For the gibs, I'd use particles for a start, otherwise we won't be able to hide the disappearing mesh.

Downloaded and checked it out, NICE.

Great to see im not the only blender user here. Props.

All of our new alien animations were animated in blender :)

As I wrote in the Drill thread, things were slow for me for the past two-three weeks due to family related issues. I couldn't get nice big chunks of time to work on stuff properly, so I spent most of the remaining available free time on drafting the usual exercises, learning, preparing for hardsurf and texturing/baking, and poking at the drill.

I'm back on track now, so I should spew some updates this week

Caught a few hours of gameplay in the mean time, testing stuff with bots (running on mobile internet for some time now, so I'm /devmapping atcshd a lot, screenshotting refs, testing building arrangements, damage effectiveness - especially of the aliens, since it's a bit hard to grasp; attack strategies against structures, turret/tesla/leech/hive/trapper placement for best defense, this kind of stuff. Mostly repeating/troubleshooting strategies I've seen during live gameplays)

Any updates?

No updates for five weeks, I'll reassign this.