3D animation of human like characters is probably the hardest thing to do. Sometimes programmers need to get the artist to put it in the model rather than animating through code ( world transforms). The .fbx formatted model file can hold animations.


Ziggyware animation tutorials

http://www.ziggyware....
http://www.ziggyware....

Blender:
http://wiki.blender.o...
http://www.stromcode....


xna creators club:
http://creators.xna.c...
http://creators.xna.c...

The Blender developers change the look and feel every once in awhile and it is not always an improvement.

Here are the notes on one such change.

http://blenderartists...