Here’s the greatest demo I’ve ever seen, and I watch lots of presentation videos:

Lightstage technology allows you to cross the uncanny valley, by using high speed cameras to capture the way different light conditions affect the skin, and generating a normal map, a texture map, and the mesh itself.
Lightstage has already been used in a few movies such as Spiderman 3, and the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It truely revolutionizes the traditional way of generating meshes.

I edited the video a bit more by adding in credits and sound.
Plot: Someone stole Ambo the Bears’ honey, and now he’s out to get his honey back.
An animation based of my original drawing, yet animated by master animator Charles Zhang.

I was playing around with After Effects some more and created an intro for triShot Films, and added it to my pre-existing flame on video. I also found an awesome website for Visual Effects generation in After Effects. You can find all the awesome free tutorials and products at http://videocopilot.net/