Yes your right, but it isn't easy - I do make tiny inroads towards understanding the whole process, but boy, is it tedious. I made a simple figure once and rigged it but the mesh kept breaking in strange places. I don't know if you're meant to make an all in one figure and rigg it or if you're meant to slice the figure up into separate parts, forearm, shoulder, etc. Trying to find info on the subject is like trying to get blood from a stone. I take my hat off to anyone who has managed to create their own characters from scratch. Why is their no decent books on the subject? Why did Peachpit cancel the book they had planned? The thing is I have so many ideas for animations but I can't start them.