Runescape animation first steps, from a 4 day noob.

I have been fiddling around with blender for just over 4 days. and this is what i have come up with. I plan to animate the character and eventually have it slay a three headed dragon. I am using the MMO Runescape for reference, the armor that i decided to model is called Veracs.

These are my renders.http:
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I need to start learning the animation, is anyone familiar with what they would consider to be a good tutorial that i can learn from.

I tried rigify but i am not learning anything from it.

blender wiki docs have just been reorganized / upgraded, try looking here http://wiki.blender.org/