Heres a very preliminary schedule for my first forum project. This is not all my idea . Some ideas are stolen from people in other forum .
Week 1: Character design
Try to get some nice and simple sketches of your character.
It could be anything you desire. Try to give the character some fun expression.
Week 2 and week 3: sculpt the character.
When character design are done. use your favorite 3d software to sculpt your character .
you might want to start some blend shapes / facial expression as well .
Week 4: Character Rigging
In this week you will move onto setting-up your character. blind skin and set up character control .
Week 5 and week 6: Texturing
During this time you might want to experiment with any shaders you might have wanted to do.
Week 7-8 : Animation and Rendering
Make a simple animation/ walkcycle/ anything to be fun , Bring your character to life .
It hope everybody will enjoy the progress . It is fun and exciting . Since I am not professional animator ( I am trying hard to be ). The schedule may seemed to be too long . Please bring me your suggestion .
