Here is a GIF, made from the YouTube clip from my 2000 demo reel, featuring thee Quake 2 Custom Player Model. In 1998 and 1999 while I was working at The #do Company. I did a little side project that would be posted on a site called The Q2PMP (Quake 2 Personal Model project). Someone figured out the MD2 format for the game and published the specs, and from that the site blossomed with a variety of custom, player made, models. Inspired by the project, but also negatively inspired by a couple of REALLY BAD models I saw, The Female Werewolf with an AK. (and continued by adding all the custom weapon replacements.). The Model continued after Quake two, being used as a character in other games using the MD2 model format. This was animated at 10 frames per second, with the game's frame interpolation adding frames, because the MD2 format was just animating the "differences" between the base pose's vertices over time, and picking the "from Frame/ To Frame" assignments from a strict catalogue of frames, and it had a very tiny footprint for the limited amount of capability those windows boxes had, graphically, in the days before nVidia. Coupled with that were the fairly low polygon limits, back then with 600 or less for the figure and 100 or less for the weapons. With my console experience, I knew how to optimize things, Just the basics, But as the MD2 format was saving only the external mesh, I could rig the skeleton any way I wanted. so she got moving jaws and an expressive ears and a tail that displayed a lot of secondary movement. The thing about animation thought, is you have to play movements in one's head over and over to figure out what they look like, Since Action is the end product of thought and motivation, you also have to think about the character, and sometimes a character moves into your head, and invited all their friends. So from this animation work, Asheru was born.This is an expansion of a Journal I posted last month, and thought a more thorough explanation, and a mobile friendly version of the art would help. R U G G E L S / 1 9 9 9