The Walt Stanchfield Lectures
Drawn to Life is a two-volume collection of the legendary lectures of long-time Disney animator Walt Stanchfield. For over 20 years, Walt mentored a new generation of animators at the Walt Disney Studios and influenced such talented artists such a...
For most of its history the Walt Disney Animation Studio kept their techniques carefully guarded secrets. With Stanchfield for the first time you see a real Disney master at work teaching his charges real principles.<br>Tom Sito. Director, animator, author. Credits include Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.
Walt Stanchfield (1919-2000) began work for the Walt Disney Studios in the 1950s. His work can be seen in films like Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, and Peter Pan. He ran weekly drawing classes for the other animators for 10 years, which have become legendary in the animation community. He taught everyone from Brad Bird to Glen Keane and even John Lasseter. Don Hahn is the Academy Award nominated producer of Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, The Haunted Mansion and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Introduction by Don Hahn; Walt Stanchfield Biography; Innovation; Drawing; Expression