Blender Downloading Link:
http://www.blender.org/
Blender Free Video Tutorials Link:
http://www.blender.org/support/tutorials...
Blender Manual Link:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2....
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By the way, animating characters is not an easy job.
Well.
In dota 2, they wrote their own program that animates their characters.
So... good luck with that.