This is an exercise in composting a CG character over real life. The following is a sequence of photographs to simulate time lapse footage with a CG character growing in the jar.
8 Blend shapes in Maya, with animated displacement and other texture maps from Mudbox10' using color blend node in Maya9. Lit in Maya, rendered with mental ray, composited in Fusion5.3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYwexMOTww Video link