Angie here, I sat here this afternoon folding laundry, while listening to the Glen Keane Podcast Part Two on Animation Podcast and I caught myself nodding over and over again. Part One is interesting, but Part Two really gets to the heart of things. Glen talks about his experience mentoring under the greats at Disney and how welcoming those people were. He talks about how sometimes he would just leave the studio when he would get stuck and go to the library for inspiration. Finally, one of the best points he brings up is in reference to his film Rapunzel. He speaks on his direction with this CG animated film as "being informed by hand drawn principles."
All of these points were what had me nodding my head. Our book Thinking Animation is written to do just this! Our book helps the 2D animator understand how to translate what they know about hand drawn animation into using the tools for CG and shows CG animators how to apply traditional principles to their animations using the machine. We even have a chapter called the "Thursday Animator" that deals with exactly what he describes when he gets animator's block on a shot. Booo-yahhh!