Wow,

That second video really shows off the rig. I'm very interested in getting good at rigging and am curious what kind of techniques you used. Do you prefer to use expressions more or set driven keys and is an expression coontroling the tail or is is animated in the first video.

Also I've been binding polygon models and using them as wrap deformers on sud-D surfaces. Have you tried this method and do you think it's the best way to deal with sub-Ds

thanks and the work looks great.