Hi, there's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyefuwq67B4 featuring the latest (January) updates with new-looking Dune, Orcrest, desert Noria, and others interesting scenery in Elsweyr.
First off, looks like more great work going into Elswyr! That elephant skeleton looks amazing!
But on watching the above video, I was struck with the elephant's running - there is no way that an elephant could run like that on a planet with gravity like earth's! It would break all of it's limbs. There was just recently an interesting article in New Scientist magazine about elephant's gait. They never have an areal phase - ie their body never leaves the ground entirely, infact their "running" is their front legs running, but their back legs walking. Here is the link to the article, which also has a rather good video of elephants "running": http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18528-full-steam-ahead-for-elephants-unique-gait.html
As for ways to improve this, I suggest that either, make new animations, which could be entirely new, or could be merely sped up versions of the vanilla walking animation (which could probably be done in the CS), or a script could be used so that elephants can never run, but instead have their speed boosted or something.
Thanks! And keep up the great work! :foodndrink: