x Walt Stanchfield
that lead the way and accomplish the "academy-award-worthy" animation and drawing.
But it is my conviction that by earnest pursuit, anyone can be of that group. It's just a
matter of exposing oneself to some vehicle that will help one break the "sound barrier"
(actually, thought barrier, for drawing is a thinking person's art).
Here's a caricature by Dan Haskett that captured the spirit of my "Teaching" many years
ago at the "Disney School of Animation". It's quite a prophetic drawing too, for out in the
audience are two of your current directors - Clements and Musker. Spot any others?
Maybe Jerry Reeves? Ed Gombert? Bluth, Pomeroy and Goldman? Even the artist
himself is there - Dan Haskett.
Different faces out there now but the sentiments are the same.
In the Illusion Of Life, Ollie or Frank had written a paragraph on cleanup people which
lists some of the functions of a cleanup person which coincide with some of the things I
keep stressing in the drawing class: a crisp line against a soft shape (using angles),
designing shapes that work with the action rather than copying, emphasizing squash and
stretch, and drawing detail only as it furthers the action and the drawing. Especially,
“telling the story” whether it’s a scene of animation or a still drawing.