Time to get to work!
Richard Williams goes into great lengths discussing the importance of life drawing. Every animator 2d or 3d should always be observing life, and drawing it as they see it. Great stuff is everywhere, you don't need to be at a life drawing session to do it either. Grab a sketch book, walk around and just draw people as you see them. You will be building up a great library of poses as you do this to reference in your animation. Since I am applying this entire book to cg, why not import a character into maya and do some dynamic posing. If you are out there doing life drawing, why not try and mimic some of your drawings with a cg rig of your choice, and see if you can capture that same pose.
Here's a link to a plug in for maya that let's you store poses as you make them for whatever rigs you are working on at the time. http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/c/poseman-pose-manager--2/download_page
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