Gesture Drawing for Animation

Walt Stanchfield was an animator who 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 animators and
animation students everywhere.
Mr. Stanchfield personally gave
copies of his collection to interested students, and was happy to seem
them distributed. According to many people who were lucky enough to
study under him, he wanted to publish them as a book, but the studio
where he worked was not interested.
The goal of this project is to imagine the book that Walt Stanchfield might have written.
Many, many thanks to
Jon Hooper and Steve Kellener of AnimationMeat.com for scanning and
transcribing many of Walt's notes and making them available on their Web
site. This book incorporates their scans and OCR conversions, so it
would not exist without their efforts. Thanks also to Aimee Major
Steinberger, who was, I believe, the first person to post one of the
Walt's notes on the Internet.
— Leo Brodie
Seattle, Washington