Thanks for the advice on how to open the mouth Peltra and ransick! Also Peltra, for some reason the pics for the link for the facial animation tutorial were not working...but thanks also for the links! I will probably refer to Kurt's for the face when I decide to animate my character. Hopefully I can post an update sometime tomorrow starting on the body, since I will have the chance to work on it more then. :p
~CGPMaya84 (also DragonTU84 from SimplyPhotoshop and CPAnimate84 from SimplyMax)