I've been amusing myself by building a puppet figure.  I've posted the figure and several characters which use the figure to my site at Morphography.

http://www.morphography.uk.vu/~cagepage/2014/freaky_puppets.zip

Only available via this link, until I figure out that new html editor I downloaded.  :unsure:

Part of what I wanted to do with this was work with a simple, basic figure and geometry and use scaling and procedural textures to create characters.  Hopefully that works pretty well.  That attached image shows something of how the figure can be scaled and shader-ed into a variety of shapes and sizes.  The little green guy in the middle is the basic starting shape.

Anyway.  It keeps me amused.  Hope someone can use such a thing.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.