I have been using anim8or for my models but the animations don’t export, anyone know a good free skeletal editor that can import (doesn’t have to export) *.obj files?
Blender
Blender can also skeletal animate? Sweet, now I have another reason to kick my friend/artist off of google sketchup. 
Blender can do rendering, modeling, sculpting, baking, physics, animation, compositing, and more. It has its own video editor and its own game engine.
Blender rokz sokz, man!
yea but first you have to get past the UI… thats hell in itself…
The new UI is way better suited for beginners than it was before but give it a few more releases and let it get out of Beta stage. 
FREE CharacterFX
http://www.insanesoftware.de/index.php?page=cfx/features.php