Quickposes is a tool for art students, illustrators or anyone who wants to focus on improving their drawing skills. By practicing gesture drawing you will not only get better at recognizing certain aspects of poses, but you will also build a visual library of characters and models.
Living Lines Library
Living Lines Library is an amazing resource full of pencil tests, drawings, documentaries and more from the animation legends!
Mixamo Auto-Rigger (FREE)
Mixamo Auto-Rigger is a free online tool that allows you to upload any 3D human model with two arms and two legs and get it rigged with a full skeleton and skinning weights.
Posemaniacs
Posemaniacs is good free resource for searching for specific poses at various angles. It has 1000s of poses displayed by male and female 3D models.
Line of Action
Line of Action is a really useful site for learning about the human form, anatomy, speed drawing and more. Useful for both 3D and traditional animators!
Wowhead
Wowhead is a site that allows you to view character animations from World of Warcraft. Another great source for game animation.
LOLKing
LOLking is a website that can be used to view League of Legends characters and their animation sets. Great as a source of game animation reference!
Zweifuss
Zweifuss is a website that displays the sprite animations for Street Fighter 3 – Third Strike. Great for reference material and for just admiring the lovely sprite animations.
CG Monks Toolbox
Cg Monks Toolbox is a free toolset for Maya that includes a large selection of handy animation and rigging tools