It all started when some friends of mine started posting animated avatars of themselves, created on Meez.com, this nifty little free site. Poking around among the portrait creation options, I discovered such items as the graveyard background and the sword animation, created a version of Candace Maddock, my Shadowgard Files character, shared it with the group -- and, as always, it snowballed from there.

The portraits that follow were generally created by the players of the various characters they depict - Katie made Taryn, Mike made Zack and Tim made Baz. I created all the sundry NPCs as well as James Strummer. Be advised that the files are big (around one megabyte each, on average), so visitors on dialup or other low-speed connections may want to give this a miss.

And without further ado, here they are: