Someone posted this link on Facebook. It’s a tutorial for Flash but the principles are the same for any software. This also goes along with my recent post on synchronizing animation to a music track.
http://youtu.be/_vhGGy3i6aA
Hi
Very good.
1) He uses drawings from "The Animator’s Survival Guide"
2) For animal and human motion I think it’s also worth taking a look at the Eadweard Muybridge books. For example, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Horses-Animals-Motion-Anatomy-Artists/dp/0486249115/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_ex
Bob