A quick progress on Joe:

Still working on it.....

I'm not stopped on the main project, I've been working with my brother on another student film.  As the material is his I'm not showing any of it here .... yet.  My brother teaches grade schooler's animation classes and here is their last project:

I did a lot of modeling on this project, it was modelled in blender, animated in poser and rendered in vue.  For the next project we're converting over to blender internal which will replace vue.  We are still using poser for animation since that is what the kids know how to animate in.  I am still working on my big project, but just between working on the next animation with my brother.  Not to worry, all of the experience I am getting in rigging and simulation will be reused on my projects:)  Here's a quick progress on the truck: