This is a still taken from cellshade themed animations done within shirowproject.com. You may recognize this character...he's a Fuchikoma and is seen originally in the GITS series of books.

3 of us worked on this in our spare time.
It has taken approximately 2 years to get to the stage you see. Almost 1 year of that time was spent on a VERY complex, realtime IK animation setup.

The realtime setup allows this character to be animated in "takes" via a computer mouse and keyboard with keys mapped to the various body parts and actions.

Models by DogmaD
Texturing, Skeleton setup and Skinning/Rigging by softdistortion
MotionBuilder Rig and controls setup -Animation by Donshole