Nope, no plug-ins at all, just your average
Print Screen and paste in
PhotoShop. The file attached is a
"work in progress" of the UV map. If you notice only one side, the
right side, of the bear is painted. I just duplicate the right side of the texture and mirror it. Don't fancy texturing in UV, it can get rather tricky at times. Pawel made the UV and I created the texture.
Here is
screenshot of
Layout to give you an idea how the animation was made.