Here is an old straight render of the original rat circa 2000 as created and animated by me.
As its from the working max file you can see how I built up cycles- generally the last 3 cycles of a given animation
were the ones used(the middle of the 3 being exported to ensure correct tangency of curves).
This rat was remade after I left Evolution games and my original animation was basically rotoscoped(poorly)
and the model simplistically up rezed (as the game specs increased).

Concept design: M. Tunijc All other work by Lachlan Creagh