Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 2: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures: 1

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.