James, for hints on rigging and animation I think that the developing Durian project, at blender.org, is a great resource to learn how a full 3D animated movie is created. On top of that, the complete projects files, including the rigged characters, will be released.
I'm not planning a rigging tutorial in the near future because my focus is on MoGraph so I will be covering more subjects related to that area. I will definitely talk about modeling and texturing a lot.
Thank you very much for your great feedback.
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Paolo Ciccone
Pret-A-3D
http://www.preta3d.com
http://www.paolociccone.com
