This is pretty much how I experienced the climactic battle from Half-Life 2: Episode 2. You need to drive back and forth, trying to protect a military base from endless waves of striders and hunters. (Damn! I just realized I forgot to put a Magnusson device in the picture.) Anyway, the reason of why the strider's legs look so weird is that I originally intended the picture to be taken from a different angle, and did my posing accordingly:
However, I was trying out several different angles, and eventually decided that the one I used in the picture at the top of this post was the one that looked best, but when I did so, I forgot to re-pose the strider's legs for the new angle.
Also, I like working with strider ragdolls. Like I've mentioned before, they are not hard to pose at all, as a matter of difference from what some others claim (see the note at the bottom of the page the link leads to). I know that, in the actual games, striders don't stand the way I've posed this one, but ever since I watched this youtube video, I've thought that pose looks more awesome than the way they actually stand in the games. Also, if I'd wanted a strider that was standing like they ususally do, I would have just used a live spawn instead of a ragdoll. One more benefit with this pose is that it's much easier to make it fit in the frame.
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