Try the automatic character set up. It is a pretty good jumping off point. Also like many of the pros around here have been saying, with the new bone fall off parameters there are fewer needs for weight maps. Do some searching on the Internet, go to the LW website. And Proton will surely tell you to LD the siggraph demo contents. Open up one of those scenes and reverse engineer a rig or animate one of those.
Doing things yourself is a much better thing in the long run.
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