If you're into eBooks this is an extensive book collection of (almost) everything Blender offers.

Reading it myself.

www.3dsecrets.com/book

Never seen rig controllers like that before, still new to 3d. Great work!

The setup is very clean, hopefully I can understand how to eventually do this as well.

Pretty good!
Can't wait to see him move.

Hopefully you can easily get around the impending doom which is figuring out "how will the cape look while (insert pose here)".

Now you know what to do next,

Animate them biting something that can't be chewed.

Gonna say something controversial...

Aeris...
(Great art by the way)

It almost looks as if a few trees just decided to gather and twist into each other.
Beautiful line work by the way.

Beautiful and Haunting at the same time.
Always a welcomed combination.