Stick with it
I have been trying to learn this kind of thing but currently at a building 3000 km away from my normal house, and it has no internet or programs to practice on. I have been here since late july. I still have not had very much practice but perhaps once I get back home I can just try my hand at animation and see how far I get. Would it be possible for me to get the model/skeleton to do this with?
How have you organized this file system?
I can get back in about two weeks time, at which point I will try to start animating.
I will try my best to make this happen but my time on the computer is restricted which makes things very difficult, so if I'm not of very much help please excuse me.
Please do not give up yet, I will try my best to argue to get more time to help, keep going with the animations, as it looks that 1.3 will not be released for many months (please take your time and include all kinds of neat things into 1.3 and work out the bugs), which should be plenty of time, even at a snail's pace. Or perhaps I'm mistaken, but nevertheless, it would be unwise to give up at such a long distance into the project.