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Are Your Figure Drawings Suffering From Stiff Manikin Syndrome? disney animation artist draw without fear dynamic figure drawing kinaesthetic experience think action not things tradition of loose figure drawing walt stanchfield Oct 31, 2025

In this video former Disney animation artist Mike Wiesmeier explains why figure drawings often look rigid, and how to make your figure drawings more dynamic by thinking about and focusing on specific ...

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Mike Wiesmeier

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In his more than 20 years of teaching Mike has helped hundreds of students to take their figure sketches from static to dynamic. He loves to see his students make the transformation from trying to copy the figure to becoming the director of their figure sketches.

 

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