Juan Pablo Bouza has just released a new and very detailed character rig using his latest version of BlenRig (BlenRig 2.0). You might remember him as the creator of a past animation, 'The Dance...
Here’s milkscanner, a 3D scanner that gets each slice of the 3D scan with a spoon drop of milk!
Friedrich Kirschner’s Milkscanner is a clever method for scanning 3D objects using only a webcam, some milk, and a camera rig made out of LEGO.
The basic idea is this: you place an object in a container, incrementally fill the container with milk, and take a photo after each tiny fill increment. The Milkscanner software mattes out the white part of the images, resulting in a silhouette “slice” of the object for each increment in the Z dimension. Each slice gives you information about the outer perimeter of the object at that depth (assuming the object is convex).
Remember Gecko Animation? Jonathan Lax decided he wanted to give something back to the community and so he's published a free character rig of their mascotte, Richie the Gecko.