Today I began creating a rig for my character to do this I am following a series of Youtube tutorials starting with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDebgY3N724

Although these tutorials are titled "Basic", as they progress they get very complicated, I was also surprised to see how similar different versions of Maya are as all the steps in this tutorial are almost identical to my different version, which is handy. So far I have made some bones, controllers and handles for the bones. I need to progress further in to more tutorials before I find how to link these bones to my character. Here are some pictures of my progression.