Creating Inky-looking characters in Blender I'm involved in a project to do with ink animation and experimentation. I found this incredible piece of animation:

Chinese Ink Style Animation

I originally thought this was some sort of After Effects compositing (is it even possible in AE?!), but found out that this particular animation was created in 3DS Max with Krakatoa and FumeFX. I'm just wonder if a similar effect is doable with Blender's smoke simulator.

There are various YouTube videos that have pretty decent results of ink renders from Blender, but I can't seem to find anything of a similar sort of movement animation. Just blobs floating around!
The closest thing I found was this animation of a  

Rigged Character Using Blender Smoke Sim   

but again I can't seem to replicate this. The smoke just doesn't seem to follow my character's animation.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
If I understand correctly, your question is essentially asking how to emit smoke from a rigged and animated character.
This should work just fine, as long as the smoke modifier is after the armature modifier on the character mesh:

Example (click for a smoother video):

I found using the mesh directly as the smoke emitter provided a smoother, less lumpy result without requiring huge numbers of particles.
Smoke settings
All these settings are just stylizations on my part, they are not supposed to look like real ink in water :P
I used a fairly high resolution domain with only 1 high resolution subdivision, dissolve (though perhaps I made it dissolve a little on the fast side), and low vorticity:

For the emitter I used subframes and enabled initial velocity so that the smoke inherits the velocity of the part of the mesh it's emitted from (in the example render the smoke is actually &quot;flung&quot; by the mesh twice as fast as it technically should be, but I rather liked the effect). I also used a negative temperature difference so that the smoke drifts down over time, however I think I might have over done it a bit (the smoke falls a little fast for my taste).