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== Design Significance in VRChat ==

The Wickerbeast King by Jin A (October 2020) arrived at a critical moment in VRChat avatar history — during the COVID-19 surge in the furry community's platform use — and introduced several standards that influenced subsequent avatar creators:

* '''Full source file inclusion''' — Providing Blender, Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, and Substance Painter files was ahead of common practice at the time and set a transparency benchmark
* '''Quest support from the start''' — An official atlased Quest package meant the base wasn't PC-exclusive, broadening the accessible community
* '''VRM conversion package''' — Supporting LIV and VSeeFace at release anticipated the growing VTubing and streaming use case for furry avatars
* '''Scene-ready upload''' — Pre-configuring the Unity scene so users only needed to hit upload (not assemble from scratch) lowered the barrier for new creators significantly
* '''Community Discord as infrastructure''' — Using Discord as both support hub and asset catalog (the #wicker-catalog channel) became a model for subsequent avatar creator communities