Walt Stanchfield (1919-2000) taught life drawing classes for animators with a special emphasis on gesture drawing. For each weekly class session, he wrote informal handouts to emphasize the theme of the current class session, to comment on work done in the previous class, or discuss whatever topic struck his fancy. Over a period of years, these notes were lovingly shared, studied, and treasured by animation artists and students everywhere.
Mr. Stanchfield personally gave copies of his collection to interested students, and was happy to see them distributed. According to many people who were lucky enough to study under him, he wanted to publish them as a book.
In 2006, I created the book that I imagined Walt Stanchfield might have written: Gesture Drawing for Animation, based on 60 of his notes, and posted it on this page.
Recently I’ve learned that Dee Stanchfield, Walt’s widow, is working on a book that will compile all 800 pages of Walt’s original notes. She’s being helped with the project by with Don Hahn (of Disney), although Disney itself is not publishing the book. Out of respect for Mrs. Stanchfield’s rights to the notes, and because they will finally be made available in book form for the animation community’s benefit, I’ve removed my version from this site.
The new book will reproduce the original notes as they were handed out, with minimal editing, keeping both the wisdom and the personality intact. I’m looking forward to seeing the originals – many of which aren’t available on the Internet at all.
Word is the book will be published in late ’08. I’ll update this page when I learn more about the book’s availability.
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