06 Rigging & Animation

Lip-Sync with Shape Keys (Wiki Book)

[tutorial] Automated animation for cars (from Blenderartists.org)

"Making animations can sound very intimidating, but it is often easy, even for beginners to make their very first animation without great harassment. This tutorial is there to show you how to do it." [feeblemind]

Using pydriver for wheel rotation along path

Learning to Walk | Learning to Talk

This tutorial covers the entire animation process of this little guy [a comic bird], first, creating a simple fk [forward kinetics] armature or rig, then assigning the mesh vertices to each bone using the weight painting technique, and last, animating it using non linear animation [NLA] tools.

Prepare to be introduced into the world of animation. Ideally, readers should have good working knowledge about Blender's interface and animation resources before dedicating time to the material in this text.

Features an easy-to-read tutorial covering modelling, materials, rigging and animation of a simple bi-pedal character.

Very good overview over the principles of rigging. It also features a lot of (often advanced) rig-tutorials for specific uses like arms, legs, spine/snake-like, etc...

Organized Keyframing and How it works [by Keith Lango]