Walt Stanchfield

Walter "Walt" Stanchfield was an American animator, writer, and teacher. Stanchfield was known for work on a series of classic animated feature films at Walt Disney Productions/Walt Disney Feature Animation and his mentoring of Disney animators. He often assisted Ollie Johnston and John Lounsbery.
Stanchfield was born in 1919 in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from high school in 1937, he would attend Chouinard Art Institute, the prototype for Cal Arts and the school that held classes to strengthen the drawing of the Disney Animators. Stanchfield worked as an animator at the Charles Mintz Studio. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy. Returning to California, he briefly worked at the Walter Lantz Studio before joining Walt Disney Productions to work on the full-length animated feature The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad in 1947 assisting Lounsbery. He continued to work with the veteran animator on films, like Cinderella, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Sleeping Beauty. After ten years with Lounsbery, he moved on to work under Ollie Johnston for another ten years.
His later career included work on every subsequent Disney animated feature, including his work as a character animator on The Jungle Book and The Aristocats. On The Rescuers, Stanchfield went back to assisting Ollie one last time before being promoted to the position of coordinating animator. In 1987, Stanchfield served as the animation consultant on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. His final film for Disney was Oliver & Company in 1988.
In the 1970s, Stanchfield and Eric Larson created a training program for new animators at Disney studios. The program included weekly drawing classes and lectures. Stanchfied's students included numerous prominent animators, such as Brad Bird, John Lasseter, Don Bluth, Joe Ranft, John Musker, Ron Clements, Glen Keane, Andreas Deja, and Mark Henn.
Stanchfield continued to come once a month to Disney to lecture well into the 1990s before passing away in 2000. In 2009, Stanchfield's lecture notes were compiled into the two-volume set Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1949	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad	Assistant Animator
1950	Cinderella 	Assistant Animator - uncredited
1953	Peter Pan 	Assistant Animator - uncredited
1955	Lady and the Tramp 	Assistant Animator - uncredited
1959	Sleeping Beauty 	Animator - uncredited
1963	The Sword in the Stone 	Animator - uncredited
1967	The Jungle Book 	Character Animator
1970	The Aristocats 	Character Animator
1971	Bedknobs and Broomsticks 	Animator - uncredited
1977	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	Animator: "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree""Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day"
1977	The Rescuers 	Key Assistant Animator
1978	The Small One 	Assistant Animation Supervisor
1981	The Fox and the Hound 	Coordinating Animator
1983	Mickey's Christmas Carol 	The Creative Talent Of
1985	The Black Cauldron 	Key Coordinating Animator
1986	The Great Mouse Detective 	Coordinating Animator
1988	Who Framed Roger Rabbit 	Animation Consultant
1988	Oliver & Company 	Production Consultant
2001	Atlantis: The Lost Empire 	Special Thanks
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