Unwrapping and Animation needs a lot of learning. It is not easy and probably never will be. There are some nice unwrappers doing alot of the tasks automatically though. Modo can do it well and Blender is also not that bad.

Animation is a task on its own. You can study animation an entire life. Some people are pure animators and still have to learn every day.

The easiest way to make animations is to use MED (very basic but easy to learn), after this you can use Fragmotion (still easy and a bit more powerful) and then you could switch to Blender (the most powerful but hard to master). If you master Blender then you can switch to everything else like Lightwave, Maya etc.

But if you really do it right then you have to read books about animation, movements, expressions, body language, facial animation and more. You have to go through tons of tutorials and you will not have time for programming anymore.

But if you just want to have some stickman animations for a prototype then I would suggest to stick to MED. It can handle the basics well.