Pet Alien article

Making of article worth a gander when you have time to kill. Each page pops up seperately, which is pretty annoying, but they talk about 3D squash and stretch (in brief) and some rigging discussion which looks kind of interesting at a glance.

Great head modeling tutorial

In Japanese
Use BABEL to translate

MGUVrelax

Specifically to fix the overlapping UVs. Try in conjunction with Lynx's Realx UV plugin (see below).

From the notes:
"Just add MGUVRelax.lsc like a normal plugin (press ctrl-F11 to bring up the plugin manager).
Usage:
THis will smooth the selected points UV values, for untangling overlapping uvs. It works exactly the same as LW's own mesh smoothing command, but with uvs.

NOTE: It makes a morph, so you'll need to deselect that to continue working :P I'll try and fix that when I figure out how :P "

Normal mapping : LW <-> ZBrush

Newtek thread

Amazing Zbrush work

Hand control with sliders

LW and Zbrush

More discussion of using both together