Above: Walt Stanchfield teaching the animators working on Who Framed Roger Rabbit in London, 1987.
Walt prepared handout notes for every class. Over the years Walt collected over 800 pages of notes! Walt died 2000, he was 81 years old. Most of these notes have been compiled into the Drawn To Life Books.
I highly encourage you to buy both of these books. If you are unsure, check out some of the handouts below and that should convince you as the notes are organized and explained more in the books.
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- Abstracting the Essence
- Acting is Art
- Action Analysis
- Anatomy VS. Gesture
- Angles and Tension
- Tennis, Angles. and Essences
- Animation and Sketching
- Good Impression
- A Simple Approach to Drawing
- 10ws_body_language
- 11ws_cannot_begin
- Construction Observations Useful in Animation
- Learn To Cheat
- Copy the Model…Who me?
- Dimensional Drawing
- Doodling vs Drawing“
- Double Vision
- A Simple Approach to Drapery
- Drawing and Caricature
- Drawing Calories
- Drawing Principles
- A Drawing Style for Animation
- Draw Verbs not Nouns
- 25ws_enthusiasm
- The Pose is an Extreme
- Feel, as well as see, the Gesture
- Action Analysis: Hands & Feet
- The Seriousness of Head Sketching
- 30ws_inbetweening.pdf
- It Ain’t Easy
- Lazy Lines
- Lines, Lines, Lines
- From the Living Model to the Living Gesture
- Mental & Physical Preparation
- More on “Essence” Drawing
- More Meanderings
- A Little More on Heads
- Review and New Approach
- The Opposing Force“
- 41ws_osmosis
- 42ws_perf_or_dwng
- Using the Rules of Perspective
- “Some principles of Drawing“
- Purpose in Drawing
- Savvy Sayin’s
- Simplicity for the Sake of Clarity
- Sketcher
- Note Taking and Sketching
- Sometimes I wonder why I spend the Lonely Hours
- Stick to the Theme
- A Sense of Story
- The Inner Force
- Talk to Your Audience – Through Drawing
- A Thinking Person’s Art
- Getting at the Root of the Problem
- Go for the Truth
- Common VS Uncommon Gestures
- Using Cylinders
- Value of Action/Gesture Analysis Study
- Vocalizing
- Some Simple Rules
- Wonders of the Right and Left Hemispheres
- One Picture is Worth a 1000 Words
- First Impression – Your Intended Goal
- A Good Sketch is like a Good Joke
- A New Slant on Drawing
- A Sense of Acting
- Affirmations