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Here are some links to useful sites:

This one is nice in that you can see what one person can accomplish...2 Blind Mice
http://www.poorhousefx.com/2_Blind_Mice/Home.htm
Not the greatest animation (pretty bad sound, but modeling is decent)




This one is a good tutorial by Larry Neuberger maker of the above film on creating blend shapes:
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/animating/Animating-Facial-Expressions-using-Blend-Shape-249.html

Not a tutorial I needed really, but I thought it might come in handy to make Phil look like he was actually on the cushion. Turned out it wasn't what I thought, but there is a lot of good information here on driven keys.
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/animating/82.html

Came across the website for Embassy Visual FX (http://www.theembassyvfx.com/). They have made many stunning visuals for a lot of commercials I have seen. Impressive and inspiring work. I particularly like the Citroen ads.
This website has a great article on how this car/man was created and lit, as well as nice pics.
http://www.cgwhat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=1



[Pic from http://www.videogiochi3d.it/img-esterne/citroen-c4/01-modello.jpg]

Came across the ILM site for Pirates: Dead Man's Chest. There is a great section detailing the flow of how the shots were created from shooting live action and acquiring MoCap Data to compositing, Lighting, etc. This is a wonderful overview of the process and an insight into the many roles in a project like this, not to mention the magnitude of it.
http://www.ilm.com/theshow/


[snapshot from the site]