Digital tutors is best for beginners. There are lots of tutorials there. http://www.digitaltutors.com/ There are also learning paths in DT. Check it and it will help to learn step by step. http://www.digitaltutors.com/learningpath/
Still looking for an answer to how to do this. A step-by-step setup guide would be great. there seems to just be nothing on this and in a larger project its kinda important to do
great environment sketches, and only 25 minutes!... it's not something I've ever given a go so would love to see that step by step guide for the next one.
My general troubleshooting for advanced skeleton is simply to use incremental saving and save at begin/end of each step of the process. Get error like this - don't undo, just revert to previous increment and try again. Can also search the outliner and see if in fact two of those objects appear, delete one and see if that…