Great George Maestri
http://www.rubberbug.com
Very simple to follow Thiru. George Maestri 's Animation tutorial from his first book,video and ect. to till today.
Particularly people who are having lot of passion to tell story using 3D but
doesn't have any experience with 2D animation and no idea at all!!
http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/2d-character-animation/734-2.html#
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Character-Animation-George-Maestri/dp/0321376005
When I stared to learn animation there is no book for 3D animation (1997) in India and following 2d animation is very basic and adopting to 3d is very challenging...
but I finally did learned the fundas of animation by following Thiru .George Maestri's animation book meant for 2D or traditional animation .
Hope will like this Post-:)