Hiya - Angie here again...Jamie says hello too, but is drowning in the murk of storyboards at the moment.Richard Bazley is an artist I met briefly on an interview years ago and he sent me a link to his blog. I wanted to feature him here because he is one of those animators who successfully made the transition from 2D to CG. He has been animating for years and has an amazing body of work. Above is Drix from Osmosis Jones which Richard designed. He designed him with a rigid looking pill shape with a cross on the chest that he says would have been a nightmare to draw. Having seen what had been done with the Giant in CG it was decided they should try CG for the pill. He did a test scene and was soon chosen to be the Supervising Animator on the character. On his blog he has many of his sketches and thumbnails from his scenes.
He also animated and supervised 3 sequences on Iron Giant.
Richard was also lead animator on Hercules. I love the part on his blog where he talks about how we - as artists- draw from what we know, our experiences, which are all unique. On visiting the studio he says his parents saw the drawings up on his wall and his Dad exclaimed "my goodness it'’s me!" He hadn't ’realizeded it but he had done a caricature of his Dad. Jamie and I talk about this in the book often, how you are always gathering information and observing as an animator little bits about people to use later in your work.
He also worked on Pocahontus with someone I have always wanted to meet - John Pomeroy.
Finally, Richard has a film he completed on his wacom called The Journal of Edwin Carp. You can view it below. He also has some great wacom tutorials where he shows how he used the wacom to create this film. Links provided below as well. 
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