Hi CGCookie,
Are you going to make a tutorial about the pothead animation?
Thx you and have a nice day!
I won't do a full tutorial on it since it was pretty hacked together, but I do have a 10 minute breakdown of how I went about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbq1heMDRxQ
As for actually learning rigging and animation, Wayne's courses are more than enough to get you to the level of anything I did in those shots:
https://cgcookie.com/courses/fundamentals-of-animation-in-blender
https://cgcookie.com/courses/learn-how-to-rig-anything-in-blender-fundamentals-of-rigging
https://cgcookie.com/courses/animation-in-blender-workflow-body-mechanics
https://cgcookie.com/courses/make-your-blender-character-run-how-to-animate-a-run-cycle
https://cgcookie.com/courses/off-road-rig-and-animate-an-rc-monster-truck-in-blender
Hope that helps!