Walt Stanchfield was an animator who taught life drawing classes foranimators with a special emphasis on gesture drawing. For each weeklyclass session, he wrote informal handouts to emphasize the theme of thecurrent class session, to comment on work done in the previous class, ordiscuss whatever topic struck his fancy. Over a period of years, thesenotes were lovingly shared, studied, and treasured by animators andanimation students everywhere.Mr. Stanchfield personally gavecopies of his collection to interested students, and was happy to seemthem distributed. According to many people who were lucky enough tostudy under him, he wanted to publish them as a book, but the studiowhere he worked was not interested.The goal of this project is to imagine the book that Walt Stanchfield might have written.Many, many thanks toJon Hooper and Steve Kellener of AnimationMeat.com for scanning andtranscribing many of Walt's notes and making them available on their Website. This book incorporates their scans and OCR conversions, so itwould not exist without their efforts. Thanks also to Aimee MajorSteinberger, who was, I believe, the first person to post one of theWalt's notes on the Internet.— Leo BrodieSeattle, Washington