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I decided to resume work on the improved manticoore model; the main body is completely finished (there are a couple of polygons that aren't displaying correctly, but this will be fixed last). All that remains is to fix the fur around the head and neck.
P.S. Only after seeing the original manticoore animations on the model did I understand what Zakhar meant when he said they weren't very good. (The flaws aren't so obvious on the regular model, at least not to me...).