Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 2: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures: 1 Author: Walt Stanchfield | Language: English | ISBN:
B00C7TAWAK | Format: PDF
Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 2: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures: 1 Description
Walt Stanchfield (1919-2000) began work for Walt Disney Studios in the 1950s. His work can be seen in films like Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, and Peter Pan.
Perhaps Stanchfield's biggest legacy was the knowledge he imparted to a new and upcoming generation of filmmakers. For a decade starting in the late 1980s, almost 800 pages of information passed from Walt's pen to his students. His style of teaching and the comprehensive content of his classes became legendary and were in part responsible for bringing up a new generation of animators and a new golden age in animation. His weekly writings, that form the content of this book, were the inspiration for Disney animators like Brad Bird, Tim Burton, Glen Keane, John Musker, Ron Clements and John Lasseter. His writings on character animation and a life spent drawing have never previously been published.
- File Size: 10701 KB
- Print Length: 422 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: B003287S5C
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- Publisher: Focal Press (April 3, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00C7TAWAK
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I acquired Drawn to Life thinking it would be nice background material on typical Disney animation characters - sort of an insider's look at their production and development. Perhaps even a way to acquire some unusual character drawings. Wrong entirely!
What this book is, is a very specialized art instruction book aimed at animation artists and Disney animation artists specifically. Still, it does teach focus on, and simplification of gesture in a way that can be effectively used in any medium. Had I to reduce Drawn to Life to its barest topic, it would be just that - capturing and communicating gesture. Animation requires special techniques adapted to 2D line drawing. Those are the heart of the book, along with Walt Stanchfield's philosophy, optimism, and personification of Disney post-WWII history.
The book is a collection of Walt Stanchfield's weekly lectures to the Disney animators, consisting of drawing handouts and notes. The lecture topics were, and are, essentially random (his own term) as this wasn't intended as a course of study, but as professional development and continuing ed for an existing, highly-accomplished staff of artists. There are 149 lectures in the first volume alone, under such titles as "Using Cylinders", "Think First ...", "Get Out Of Your Way", "Action Analysis", "Silhouette", and so on.
Having dabbled in art classes and books over the years, I often find such material highly-technical ... and deadly dull. Drawn to Life is neither. Though the volume is large (nearly 400 pages), each lecture chapter is short and to the point. Stanchfield's teaching style is literate and personable, often humorous and riddled with stories.
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