Meet Squeek!
Wim Claes shares a .blend file that he created to learn the basics of the Blender animation tools.
That said, I think that the file could be more useful if it also provided some documentation on the setup.
You can download Squeek from Wim’s website. The file is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

cute model, should be a lot of fun to play with
It’s real fun. I will recommend it to my students.
Thanks for the “bird”!
So I’m a noob at Blender. How come when I render frames or the whole animation its just a blue frames over and over?
@ WiFiWalrus
Is the camera aimed at you models?
@ WiFiWalrus
I had same problem. Make sure all the layers are selected b4 u render / animate.
I have a .blend file of the “Billiard Ball” character that I created for the BlenderArtists recent challenge#36.
Click my name above to download!!
@WiFiWalrus:
Maybe mist is turned on / set too high? i run into that sometime, and yes i know this is old.