VideoTrace

VideoTrace is a cool program which allows you to take a short movie of an object and then quickly create a 3D model from it. To do this you capture a short video moving around the object and then you can draw polygon shapes around features of the object. You then skip forward or backwards a few frames, re adjust the 3D points to match them up better and after several minutes you have a fully working 3D model which you can use/duplicate across the scene.

For a full demonstration check out the video after the jump.