The info about the pencil tests is really interesting Garret, but if you want somebody from Disney to see it perhaps you should update your first post or something... although there are tons of people reading this thread, I think that that important piece of information may get lost in the 65+ page count if you just leave it there - I'd imagine that a lot of people don't have the patience to read the whole thread and will just go to the last page.
P.S. You've probably seen this, but you were posted about in The Blog of Kells a while ago (a production blog for "The Book of Kells", an upcoming European animated film that has a really interesting 2-D/medieval artstyle) - http://theblogofkells.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_theblogofkells_archive.html