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The PAPERWALKER Journal is a regularly updated weblog of character designer Florian Satzinger in which he showcases his character design work, visual development, inspirations and reference materials of current, past and future projects, such as Toby Skybuckle© for France and Japan based Ankama Group LLC and John Starduck© for France and US based Tigobo Animation Studios. ©2013 World rights reserved.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Old School

Pencil on paper.

Gillian Reid

May I introduce you to the super-talented Gillian Reid...

Image © Gillian Reid

Monday, May 20, 2013

Moment

June 8th, 1968, funeral cortege of Robert F. Kennedy from New York to Washington. (via Shorpy)

New York City: Flatiron Buliding Rising

1902 (via Shorpy)

New York City ca. 1900

"Little Italy", Mulberry Street (via Shorpy)

Friday, May 17, 2013

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Tigobo

Tigobo Animation Studios, lunch break picnic, Angouleme, Spring 2013.

By the by, leaving comments shifted to facebook etc, no? People almost stopped commenting on Blogger blogs, aren't they?

Photographer Mark Laita: Created Equal

From the book »Created Equal«, for more please follow this very link...

Monday, May 13, 2013

Process

Another process piece from the bird faculty...

Lego Food

Monday, lunch break. (via Zeitgedanken)

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

The Process

Here we go...

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Today's Warm-Down Sketch

I wish you a nice evening, everyone...

I Love Superheroes: Wonderwoman

"In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon.The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29." (via kateoplis)

This Stop-Motion Animation Rocks!

"Buckle your safety belts for Micro Mayhem! 100% hand-crafted stop-motion animation using Micro Machines as the characters. Shot 99% IN CAMERA using a custom camera rig we created in order to make the tiny world look as EPIC as possible! Check out more from Stoopid Buddy Stoodios here: Stoopid Buddy Stoodios"

Micro Mayhem! from Stoopid Buddy Stoodios on Vimeo.

Arrow-Shaped Horns

Another piece with this dark drawing cardboard in the background.

Monday, May 06, 2013

MMWUWDE

Monday Morning Warm-Up Wolf Drawing Exercise.

Saturday, May 04, 2013

Post-It

Thursday, May 02, 2013

He's The Chicken Man

Oh wow, my uber-gifted pal JP Vine posted a beautiful breakdown of his latest shot of his short film project Apollo. JP, I love you!

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Apropos New York City In The 1950s, Time Square

Pure illustration magic from the 1950s. Look, there are the same buses as the ones on the photo from before, lovely. (Artwork © Miroslav Sasek)

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

New York City

1958, Plaul Slade. I LOVE the colours.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Warm-Up Doodle, Photoshopped

2 minutes.

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Rough Digital Sketch

I started working on a new take on the CTN eXpo's duck, again strongly inspired by The New Yorker Magazine's corporate character Eustace Tilly. This time btw, the yellow eye patches are folded up...

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Adobe Duck

John Starduck meets Adobe? Frankly, this is a piece I completely forgot about until last Monday. I was travelling back from Tigobo's Meet Ze Artists event in Angoulême to Paris by train together with Adobe's Stéphane Baril (super nice guy btw) talking about this and that in connection with drawing in Photoshop etc. Anyways, this very chat reminded me on this rough piece here below which I did for a live demo for my students in Salzburg. Trying to show how my digital rough sketching process proceeds. The detail with the Adobe logo was just added to make the piece sort of more significant.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Ze Team

Tigobo Animation Studios: Ze team, complete, at least for the most part. Arthur Fong was at that moment already on his way to Paris and Casey Maxwell Clair and Christopher Beaumont took the air.
Here are some impressions of the character design workshop Stéphane Chung and I were giving @ Meet Ze Artists. We were btw using one of Carl Spitzweg's famous postman paintings as reference/inspiration, here.