The Iron Giant (1999) - Richard Bazley (lead animator) - x2 original sketchbook drawings portraying 'The Giant' and the voice actor, Vin Diesel, as drawn by lead animator Richard Bazley exclusively for this auction. Both signed to the bottom right corner. A4, approx. 

Richard Bazley is an Emmy-nominated film director and a storyboard artist. Although now a Director of Live Action and animation, his background is in animation and his credits include Disney’s Pocahontas, Hercules, Tarzan and a lead animator and sequence director on the Warner Bros. film The Iron Giant which was released in 1999. Set during the Cold War in 1957, the film centers on a young boy named Hogarth Hughes, who discovers and befriends a giant alien robot. With the help of a beatnik artist named Dean McCoppin, Hogarth attempts to prevent the U.S. military and Kent Mansley, a paranoid federal agent, from finding and destroying the Giant.