hello…im at the stage with my project where i need to make the body for my first character…I have no idea where to start…i want to be able to rig it, initially to position the body for a good render, and then for animation. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial or anything…i will be adding clothes to my model so the body i make doesnt have to be super realistic visually but still looking like a body and not a plastacine model 
thanks
i think there’s a good tutorial on the blender website under character modeling. good luck
Hi Peter18. You might want to try and google Blender Alien Tutorial and find the different modeling, rigging, UV mapping, and animating series created by David Ward over at Blender Cookie.com. Excellent, excellent tutorials that will teach you how to do everything that you mention.
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May help you.
http://theprocessdiary.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-02-24T22%3A27%3A00%2B11%3A00&max-results=5
http://www.blendervideos.com
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where is a good place for high quality female face reference images for free? i am working on a gothic style female character (my first human model ever) and would love to have better quality photos to use, but i am unemployed and can’t pay for any atm. any help would be appreciated.
cultpuppy…http://free-textures.got3d.com/natural/free-character-references/index.html they have some good free images for character references…hope it helps 
thank you peter18 that was very helpful.