User:Wrista

Wrista is the SW1ki handle of a person that has been known by many other names across the 'verse for many years, none of which are of any particular consequence or interest. What is more of interest, is that Wrista plays both the twi'lek Wrista Ipex(imagine that), and the human Kaitlin Mainwaring on SW1. Despite a longterm love affair with Star Wars in particular and related genres in general, Wrista Joined SW1 as a player only in June 2006 along with some good friends, who in general then proceeded to "kick ass", as put by those who voice such opinions.

Wrista is a freelance digital animator, artist and designer specializing in science fiction/fantasy art, especially 3D art and animation and especially-especially starship design and modeling, and is currently completing a BFA in Visual Communications in a second round through college. Wrista's true passion is for "worldbuilding", or the wide-ranging design of settings in which stories may be placed; the preferred canvas for such are games and film, both of which are studied rabidly and with great opinion.

Wrista has been a Star Wars fan since birth, often accused of having quoted the films instead of crying when the doctor's slap came along. This has been supplimented by a fascination both with the universe itself and it's affect and place within that scary place we call the Real World, and we can all, in the end, blame Lucas for everything(not that most of us didn't already).

Wrista has been active on the 'net for quite some time, and roleplaying for most of it. First introduced to RPng in general with the venerable classic AD&D at some point in the 80s, life since has almost always involved some form of roleplaying involvement since. Wrista's first online RP experience was back in the halcyon(not really) days of dialup and BBSes, where the discovery of a local, roleplaying Trade Wars BBS occupied the young geek's attention for quite some time. Since then, Wrista has played on nearly every MU* variant; staffed on several such games; served as RP, code, policy, chargen, and player help wizards; built and run two original-theme MUXes of her own; played and RPed in a large number of the major MMOs that have hit the market, and worked on several game mod projects some of which have even seen the light of day. None of which really matters or means anything, aside from possibly that Wrista is a bigger loser than you, but at least now we know how someone could possibly be so messed up.

Wrista's current ambitions include graduation, completing a long-awaited career shift into game art, seeing the eventual realization of a personal MMORPG design that empahasizes roleplay and community as a design feature rather than afterthought, a full SW: Empire at War mod based around Wing Commander 1 and 2,  and a tuna sandwich.

Wrista is one half of the founding team behind Starfighter Studios, which might even matter someday, probably after the site gets finished.