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I would take a look at the Rigify plugin that comes with Blender.

I looked at and used the Rigify plugin but to increase my rig knowledge, I rather build my own rig...

Rigify is not compatible with LE3, it is not bones animations only, but a more complex system.

@YouGrove: It is plain a old IK rig they just changed the shape of some of the bones - you may have to bake the IK animation to FK before exporting, but there is no special magic involved

Just saying it failed when i tried, perhaps someone could test again regify and see how it's behave ?

I'm far from convinced about regify, so far from 3DSMAX complete and customizable biped system.

The problem with rigify is the amount of bones it has after you generate the true rig from the meta rig. The WGT bones, you are advised to delete after generating the rig. Unity advises this course of action. Tearing apart a pre made complex rig can be done but seems like it would lead to headaches. Blender's rigging is not bad and I tried a few. Person opinion here, Rigify is great for regular animations for which is was created for.

The Mixamo auto rigger seems to work pretty well. You can get 2 free auto rigs a week just by having an account with them. You can't accumulate them though (limited to 2). But still, for an indie project, I doubt you'd be rigging more than that (esp since you can just recycle the skeleton for similar meshes).