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Via Medhue Animations, here's a pretty mesmerizing timelapse video of a fully articulated 3D penguin avatar, created from a screengrab of a real penguin, lovingly modeled in Blender, and then brought to life in the virtual world.
If you want to scroll forward, it gets real (so to speak) at around 12:45 in. Particularly impressed by the waving flipper action. That's all very nice, but I personally prefer a penguin piloting a robot exoskeleton.
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