Yesterday evening I was working on an interview with Walt Stanchfield conducted by Christian Renaut that will appear in Walt's People - Volume 5. I loved the following story about John Lounsbery:

"John was a very likeable guy. Everybody liked him. He was a real cartoonist as opposed to the artist that Milt Kahl was. His animation was more cartoony, humorous, broad. He was meek but it didn’t mean he didn’t have a lot of fire inside of him. He had a technique… well I will give you an idea of the different techniques: he picked up a scene from the director and then he would get as much information as he could from the director, the story, etc... He would then light up a cigarette, walk around, have a cup of coffee and talk, small talk. But this stuff is going around in his mind and you could tell when it gelled. You could almost see the look on his face. He’d get up, he’d go in his room, then he’d take a sheet a paper and it’s all planned out for him up here, and it blew out of his mind, and it would all be done in no time at all. To give you a contrast, Cliff Nordberg would pick up his scene from the director, and he would start making drawings and write down. He’d make experimental drawings and work the things out."