[ATC] Aether Drake Avatar Version 1.8

Quite frankly one of the loveliest dragons on the market, in a small niche populated almost entirely by high-quality avatars.

Love this dragon. Got the size mods in world so I can replace my ancient Seawolf.
Cant wait to start making texture mods and maybe even some mesh parts for it.
The Aetherflight bugs have been fixed in version 1.3.2 so no more issues with sim crossings!
If you're looking for a nice dragon with a lot of options without having to buy a ton of extra stuff, this is gonna be the dragon for you! Of course, feel free to buy extra stuff for it but you can get a lot of mileage out of this avatar without needing to spend anything extra!

This avatar is exceptionally well-animated (though missing swim animations)
The advertised flight system is plenty fun, but it's buggy and unresponsive - thankfully you can just toggle it on and off via the HUD, so it's not really worth docking points for the system breaking because you don't NEED it. A majority of the time it outright breaks when crossing sim borders into another regions though I have high hopes for this being fixed in the future.

Textures are 4.5/5, great and seamless, and very well-made and pleasing with plenty of layers to arrange how you want. The eyes don't actually use the system eye texture/slot though, so you MUST use the included devkit PSD and can't use any system eyes unfortunately. This has been rectified somewhat by including multiple different BoM eyes.

Animations are 5/5, perfectly looping and well-animated. Fluid, superb movement despite the lack of swimming animations.

Mesh and rigging is 5/5, working within SL's obvious limitations to the best of the creator's ability and with very pleasing addons such as spikes, fins, and plated scales.

It's worth noting that the attachment points for the head you need to use for unrigged attachments are the Alt Ear and (possibly) the Alt Eye bones, so using the rigged options is naturally far easier.

Ultimately any complaints of mine are minor, and can be completely ignored. The avatar is otherwise fairly complete and buggy flight system aside, absolutely worth the 3.3k L$ price tag.