This rooster was created by the studio I'm working in,
Snowball vfx, for the American Sci-Fi Channel,
you can see it on this link:
http://www.snowball.co.il/video/SciFi_Chicken.mov

we also used it to demonstrate some of our techniques,
it is based on a CAT rig and alot of improvements to control the feathers.
the demostration video was shown on siggraph this year, and it appears now on softimage's site on the CAT animation gallery:
http://www.charanitech.com/gallery/default.asp
the direct link to the video is:
http://www.charanitech.com/gallery/movies/Rooster.wmv

my part on this project was the whole r&d, rigging, skining, creating the feathers and making sure they work well.
besides me, 3 more people worked on that rooster, the animator, the Shade artist (Dave Levy aka Opeth) and the modeler (Igor Kreinin aka Bayaron)

you can find some more details on this project on that thread:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthr...threadid=411077