Red Pencils; Rough Piece of Duck

Update: Here are some older pieces... I really enjoy colouring with red. (Btw, one of my all-time favorite cartoon characters and all-time favorite inspirations is Chuck Jones' Gossamer)

Apropos old, I just made a nice find on a forgotten SD card. The photo shows our hotel room in Montevideo, last year. I worked there on one of those tiny hotel coffee tables and had a terrific view on the Rambla/riverside. The original sketch, here in the foreground, was part of the "Of Critters, Ducks And Dragons" exhibition in Florence, no Luca?

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This is just a very fast and rough piece of duck. Sorry for the lack of updates and replies. Right now, it's just because I've not enough time... I wish you a nice weekend!

Happy Independence Day, btw... :)

Photo/File: Wikipedia

Childwood: Mary L. Tale; Uli Meyer On His Day With Ronald Searle

Update: Fellow director and animator Uli Meyer is doing a series of posts on his day with Ronald Searle. Image © Uli Meyer

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Original entry from Wednesday: Some weeks ago, I was working on a soft redesign of the Mary L. Tale character (aka Timba Tale) out of our Childwood project... her hair turned btw from red to green due to some story changes.

BTW, here's a recent pic of my fellow 2D animation class... lots of talent here:

Nemoland Critter

This is a sort of Steampunk-Psychoanalytic interpretation of my lecture work at the Nemoland event 2009.

Teaching Animation Design Or...

...what I think animation design is. This is btw a fast sample design (bg and character) I did today for the course I run here in Salzburg.

Warm-Up Sketch; Captain Christmas 2.0

Update (FRIDAY, June 5, 2009): Besides the Toby Skybuckle and StarDucks tasks I'm playing with a re-design of our Captain Christmas character for some action figure plans we're discussing here. Motto: The decent chap-hero becomes an almost invincible superhero. "Almost" being the operative word.

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Original entry from Wednesday: Starting with tomorrow, I'm officially back to work at my (more and more digitally) drawing desk after this very time in Florence.

Spider Man's Drawing Request And A Look Back On Nemoland 2009

Today, I do a double-post or a two parts entry of sorts.

Part one: Fellow colleague and good friend Francisco Herrera (Spider Man, Superman) asked me do a very own pin-up drawing on one of his characters for his next book. And here's the fruit, the ACME Wondermotorbra 3000D-T (coming with a built-in tea cooking feature):

I really do like space around the characters, much space. The original background I painted was that size:

The roughs, finally:

Part two: A look back on Nemoland 2009 in pictures

This is the Nemoland Award 2009 statue I got from the Accedemia Nemo, wonderfully rendered by the fabulous Paolo Chiari:

Fellow animator and comic artist Flaviano Armentaro and me in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Sala Luca Giordano. Fab' place, absolutely. This was, btw, the very place where they gave me the dragon statue:

Nemoland family portrait 2009. From right: Super duper director and animator Alex Orrelle (Finding Nemo, Incredibles), me, Sire Giuliano Cenci (Grisu, Calimero), Paolo Chiari (master of trolls and dwarfs) and Luca Chiarotti (Accademia Nemo).

Photos: Maryam Laura Moazedi

Some pics from the exhibition in the Gipsoteca Fiorentina will follow. I'm still stunned by the appeal and the impact of this very spot. It was indeed a magic place to let my ducks 'n' critters out...

The Show's Over...

It was a wonderful time here, absolutely. I'll miss everybody very much... and I will try to post more on this fab' week in Florence as soon as I'm back to Austria. And finally, btw, I had this very steak. Gosh, what a bloody beast, J.P.!!

Photos: Maryam Laura Moazedi

The Critters Have Landed In Florence...

StarDucks alongside of Michelangelo. Smack my a** and call me Sally :)

Pet Bogeys

Update (Wednesday, May 13, 2009): Recently, I sended a bundle of original roughs to Florence for an exhibition. Hope they'll like my scratchy pieces...

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Original post from Tuesday:
I did those so long ago that the paper of the original sketches is turning yellow... creepy.

The same goes for the paper of this sketch, btw. But who cares?

Horrors

I've some very busy days lately... and traveled way too much.

Update: Hey, Pixar will open a second studio in Vancouver. Nice, good choice... ;) Here are btw some pics of my personal Vancouver history...

Photos: Satzinger & Hardenberg Archive

Sorry for the lack of quality of the photos.

Genio Fiorentino: Nemoland Event/Workshops

This is a quick info update to whom it interests: I will give workshops at the Instituto d'arte di Porta Romana and Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence within the scope of The Genio Fiorentino 2009, starting with May 20 till May 23, 2009.

Besides the workshops, there will also be an exhibition of my designs (over more than 150 rough pieces, finished works etc.) in the Gipsoteca Fiorentina at the Instituto Statale d'Arte di Firenze, from May 20 till June 6, 2009. Title: "Of Critters, Ducks And Dragons"

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

May 20-21: workshop - room “Aula Magna” at the “Instituto d’arte di Porta Romana”
May 22-23: workshop - room “Sala Bruno Giordano” at “Palazzo Medici Riccardi”

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Peewee

I'm still occupied with administering business things - but anyone who's waiting for files, news, replies to comments etc. from me can now rest easy :) Finally, I'll return to "real work" on Wednesday, this week.

I forgot to mention, that many of my birdish critters are quite inspired by Austrian-Bavarian mythical creatures like the "Raurackl", "Rasselbock" or "Wolpertinger" (a horned rabbit of sorts) or the "Basilisk beast"...

Goob Creature

Images: Copyright © MC Prod./Soleil Prod. and Satzinger & Hardenberg. W.r.r.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Toby Skybuckle will have some serious questions to answer about that skipper... Anyway, this is just a quick post on the fly. I'll be back to my drawing desk on Wednesday or Thursday Monday, April 27 ... see you then. Btw, in the meantime, you could perhaps check out Jake's props and vehicles sketches for the Horton movie...

Birdish Gizmo With Cloud

I'm off for a week or so. See you then... (This colourful critter is for a dear friend's project, btw. "Btw" is my word on this blog, no?)

New Teaser: Toby Skybuckle

Cleaned up preview piece.

Images: Copyright © MC Prod./Soleil Prod. and Satzinger & Hardenberg. W.r.r.

StarDucks Rider

Sorry for not posting in a while. I had some really serious troubles with a new clean-up technique. Anyway, the things work well, now ... this piece was done the old way, btw.

The Crystal Sword DC58-2602, ACME Smithery

Finally, I managed to finish my piece for Crisse (referring to his comic book series l'Épée de cristal). He is, btw, the editor of Toby Skybuckle... what makes me really glad.

By the by, Achdé was so kind and featured my other duckish critter (which I did for him in return for the gift he made me) on his blog.

Update: Here are four other Danilowatz drawings out of this very book from the 1920s:

Photos: Satzinger & Hardenberg Archive

Beginning of Spring; 4 Armed Hero

Today's view from my studio's balcony. Hello spring ;)

And this is a view on my drawing desk. The view from 2007, actually. As a matter of fact, some work pieces or sample sheets from that year:

Update: This four armed hero was my favorite to draw during this project. He likes to do yoga btw...

Wolf Bros.

I really like this vehicle's silhouette and the sketchy roughness of the whole piece...

Btw, the problems with my blog are solved already. Everything works as it should again... nice.

Motoric Help

Here's another piece (dates from 1923) of Austrian artist Jos Danilowatz, right out of his brilliant book "Motor in der Karikatur". The influence on my work is obvious, no?

The Text below the image says btw something like: "Women's new technique, to throw off-balance even the most steadfast sportsman."

Here are two designs of mine, created about a year ago or so, which were quite inspired by Danilowatz' "motor pics"... and from StarWars :)

To me, another indeed very, very paramount source of inspiration is this very blog and its photos: Shorpy

Motor Hat

I've no idea for what this hat is for or how it works. Anyway, I really enjoy painting all sorts of reek, damp, steam etc...

This sidekick character was for a nice project from last year. The client really liked it, but after all the market research resulted in prefering something like "pink girlies" and stuff.

Hu, tomorrow is Friday already, I really wish to have an Otter Ball craft for this weekend's getaway...

Update: Hu two, I totally forgot to link to Erwin Madrid's wonderful work in progress painting post! In this very connection, it seems natural to refer to Mr. Erik Martin, too.

Toby Skybuckle: Sneak Peek

For Jake Parker. And for Crisse too, naturally.

This was btw a very fast and rough rendering for some test clean-up purposes.

Nice Ride

I really enjoy designing/drawing all sorts of rides, machines, vehicles etc. All the more if I work on Toby Skybuckle #1 (and that's btw what I'm working on day and night these days), which is full of weird rides and... but we'll wait and see for the book :)

Apropos, the inspiration for this piece (which is not for the Toby book) comes from one of my favorite artists, Jos Danilowatz:

Photos: Satzinger & Hardenberg Archive

Blue Pencils

I'm back to my drawing desk after a shorter "drawing mission" abroad...

Btw, Dr. Jones stopped in Dijon and did some really nice sketches.

StarDucks: Creature Design

Time is running...

"When the creatures come
out at night to play
with the clocks, blast
the alarm and get
into your socks..."

JASPER STARDUCK, bird

The Chilly Cans

Speaking of those very penguins, the original (design-)idea was inspired by the famous Red Bull cans (colours and shape). It was not for release. We thought it was too crazed or too alien of sorts. Anyway, I thought it would be nice to share the story behind...

BTW, thank you so much for all the many, many wonderful comments on those fogies! Thanks a bunch! Oh, some more, a recent post on Steve Ogden's blog pointed me to the terrific works of Andrew Severynko. Truly amazing pieces.

Image: Copyright © by Andrew Severynko. All rights reserved.