I’ve used Blender for hard surface modeling for a couple years, but I’ve always wanted to learn the process of designing, rigging and animating a character from scratch. I found a couple great courses on Udemy that helped me learn the basics, and about halfway through the second one I felt I had a decent enough grasp of the core concepts to get going on my own. I’m not in a rush to finish this first character design, so I’ll continue to learn as I go and build it a bit at a time,  interspersed with some other projects I’m eager to work on.