If you haven’t ever used anything for content creation, then avoid falling into the Autodesk trap and try Blender. Even today, Blender is already in quite a few cases better choice then Maya, but what’s more important are the trajectories of the two pieces of software. Their development direction, their development pace, and their communities. One is on the incline, and one is on the decline. So if you are just staring now, Blender is much better investment of your effort into the future.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+character+creation There’s just so much content, you don’t even have to search hard 