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The PAPERWALKER Journal is Florian Satzinger's regularly updated weblog on his character design work, visual development, inspirations and references materials of current, past and future projects such as StarDucks©, Motorbirds© and Toby Skybuckle© for France and Japan based Ankama Group LLC, Childwood© for Canada based Arcana Studio Inc. and many more. ©2012 World rights reserved.
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DUCK - The Mag For The Birds Presents: Florian Satzinger's BIRDS AND PENCILS
"A superb book filled with some of the best character and vehicle design around the wit involved is fabulous. This book is especially for those of you who loved the Ducktales and Darkwing Duck cartoons of the late Eighties and early Nineties."
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"In a world that is dominated by ultra realistic cg, stuff like this is like a breathe of fresh air. Such great poses, lines of action and true composition[...]"
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"[...]a wild and awesome collection of duck sketches in crazy flying machines and other fantastic adventures[...]"
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'Birds And Pencils And Sundry Other Things And Hobs' by Florian Satzinger (Brandstudio Press)
Hard cover, 8.5x12 inches, 48 pages, full-color, full bleed, sewn pages.
"[...]inspired by old school animation but at the same time is so much fun[...]makes me want to pick up a pencil and start creating"
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About Me
- Florian Satzinger
- Graz / Salzburg (alternating), Austria
- Florian Satzinger was a student of well-regarded Disney, MGM and Hanna-Barbera animator and animation director Ken Southworth ("Alice In Wonderland", "Woody Woodpecker", "Tom & Jerry", "The Flintstones", "Peanuts", "The Smurfs") who influenced him greatly. Presently, he is developing StarDucks© and Toby Skybuckle© with France and Japan based Ankama Media Group. Besides his design and production work, he teaches character design, analog animation and animation history in collaboration with Maryam Laura Moazedi at the University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg.
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Florian Satzinger is one of the members of The Art Center, a place where artists from Disney, Dreamworks, Lucasfilm, Fox Animation, etc. share ideas, tips and tutorials. The Art Center is a sister site of the popular Character Design weblog.
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You can email me at: hello[at]paperwalker[dot]com
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Nemoland 2009, FLORENCE
Photo impressions of the 2009 Nemoland festival (Photos © NEMO NT). From left to right: Stefano Casini, Maryam Laura Moazedi, Giuliano Cenci (2x), Alex Orrelle, Florian Satzinger.
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Alex Orrelle, Florian Satzinger, Florence 2009 (Photo © NEMO NT)
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Behind the scenes of science fiction and fantasyNEMOLAND (NEMO NT)
In May 2009, Florian Satzinger gave workshops within the scope of The Genio Fiorentino 2009, on the occation of the Nemoland event/conferment of the Nemoland Special Award in the Aula Magna at the Instituto Statale d' Arte of Florence, Italy. Former Nemoland workshop hosts/award recipients were animation directors and animators such as Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, Alex Orrelle (Pixar) and J.P. Vine (Aardman Studios). Besides that, there was an exhibition of Florian Satzinger's original artwork at the Gipsoteca of the Instituto Statale d' Arte.
In Loving Memory
Ken Southworth (September 22, 1918 - December 6, 2007) worked for a number of major animation studios, including Walt Disney Studios, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, Warner Bros., MGM, Walter Lantz and Clokey Productions. His credits includes Disney's Alice In Wonderland, Cinderella and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as well as Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry and The Flintstones and Walter Lantz' Woody Woodpecker.
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TOBY SKYBUCKLE© Book I, "The Fall", ANKAMA Editions, France
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JANUARY 10-14, 2011
Willie Real and Florian Satzinger will team up to host a character design programme at VIA University College's Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark.
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MARCH 4, 2011, 20:00h
Maryam Laura Moazedi and Florian Satzinger will give presentations about stereotypes in character design and visual design for computer games at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria.
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7 comments:
Great design.
T H I S ONE IS G R E A T ! ! !
Love it ! so fun !
Awesome character !
heh love the character charm in the sketch. For an animator to animate your work, the character almost say what they are like in that single concept pose. Very kewl.
Hope your system restore is going well.
hey florian,
impressive as always. a true paper walker. stay creative in 09.
Brian,Faboune, thanks!! :)
Jon, big thanks, system is back working, btw :)
C.B. same here, Sir! Thanks!
Awesome work. Very Chuck Jones-ish.
Its fun to see you do cats every now and then.
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