StarDucks: Birdish Critter In Motorsuit

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

StarDucks: Birdish Critter In Motorsuit

An antagonist of sorts.

There is no denying that the inspiration came from those photos I took at the city zoo of Cordoba, Argentina. I have quite a fixation on Pelicans, haven't I?

On a totally unrelated subject: Did I mention that I love Steve Lambe's work so much that it hurts my head? And the same goes for Martin Wittig and fellow Matt Williames, who, btw, recently became a "hand drawing resident nomad" at this tiny aspiring studio :)

Photos: © Satzinger & Hardenberg Archive

16 comments:

C.B. CangaWednesday, October 15, 2008
really nice work. funny i haven't stumbled on this blog before.

i will make sure to add you to my link list.
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Nathan H. BoydWednesday, October 15, 2008
Well now I know what MY nightmares will involve tonight. :)

Awesome stuff.
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Steve HearnThursday, October 16, 2008
Fantastic, another classic, man what beer do you drink? LOL!
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UnknownThursday, October 16, 2008
I love all your designs. Great work!
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UnknownThursday, October 16, 2008
your work never stops to amaze and inspire me. thanks once again!
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Jose RamosThursday, October 16, 2008
Hi Florian , i still loving your works.
.The black pelican is so creepy.

keep on touch!
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Florian SatzingerFriday, October 17, 2008
Chris, thanks for linking me! I linked you back...

Nathan, an early Halloween gift for you. Cheers!

Steve :) I had some "inspiring" Zillertal beers in Montevideo, last month. It's an Uruguayan beer brand. Very tasty. The funny thing is that the name sounds quite Austrian (there is a valley in Tyrol with the same name).

John! Thanks a bunch!

Joonas, cheers! How are you?

Jose, thanks a lot!
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Tatevik AvakyanFriday, October 17, 2008
Beautiful work as always!
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pablo pabloFriday, October 17, 2008
Great step by step!
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SteveLambeSaturday, October 18, 2008
Say wha!?!? All this time I've been visiting your blog for inspiration.

Your character designs are fantastic! I wish I was half your talent.

Cheers!
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Mehdi ShiriSunday, October 19, 2008
you are genius.
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UnknownSunday, October 19, 2008
Great,n,awesome critter!!!! Love the color!!!!
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Jon HartTuesday, October 21, 2008
heh its so dark and villainous! If its alright totally like to add your blog to my list too. Always inspiring to look at something as simple as your choice of colours or backgrounds let allown character designs. =D

Cheers
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Ben ReynoldsTuesday, October 21, 2008
Your work is SO inspirational. You are a fantastic character designer. Something to aspire for!
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AchdeWednesday, October 22, 2008
Brrr ! so inspiring this monster ! The colour for the background, the choice of the attitude, everything is perfect. I hope you'll never put an eye on a kangoroo my firrend !
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potsyTuesday, October 28, 2008
Hello
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About Me / Story

FLORIAN SATZINGER, SOKOL Prize winner 2023 (along with Gerald Scarfe), 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. Having worked for clients that include Warner Bros., Disney, Zanuck Family Entertainment, ReelFX, Space Age Films, Psyop, Ravensburger North America, Facebook, Budweiser, Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Bahlsen and Snapchat, Satzinger is now developing under the umbrella label DUCKLAND projects such as «DUCK AWESOME» and «JOHN STARDUCK» with Paperwalker Studios SHF.

Besides his industrial career, he holds a lectureship for character design, analog animation and animation history at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg (Urstein, Austria) and worked/works as a visiting dozent at art schools such as VIA University College's Animation Workshop (Viborg, Denmark), Film University Babelsberg (Potsdam, Germany), Film Academy Baden-Württemberg (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Beaux-Arts & Entertainment (Paris, France) and Accademia Nemo (Florence, Italy).

Florian Satzinger is a member of Los Angeles based Creative Talent Network, a community for the world's leading creators of both traditional and digital animated films.

Endorsements And Reviews

«Just put Disney, Franquin and Satzinger in a shaker... and here comes the magic liqueur.»

Jean Mulatier,
Caricaturist
(Esquire, Le Figaro, Time, Playboy, Elle)

«[...] beautiful character work from Austria's Florian Satzinger, who blogs over at the Paperwalker Journal.»

Michael Canva,
THE WASHINGTON POST

«[...] you brilliant bastard»

Jeff Merghart,
Lead Character Designer, Concept Artist and Senior Animator, WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS.

«You do Warner Bros better than Warner Bros did Warner Bros.»

Mark Whiting,
Production Designer of THE IRON GIANT. 3-time Annie nominated Art Director and Production Designer.

«This Austrian artist (Florian Satzinger) has drawn some of the world's most iconic animated characters.»

Gary Evans,
ImagineFX Magazine

«I hate you and love you at the same time.»

Deborah Guedj,
Journal de Mickey, France.

«[...] the school that made a deep and lasting impression was Vancouver Institute of Media Arts. That’s where Ken Southworth taught. [...] Ken could teach without teaching, say something without actually saying it. He encouraged Florian to see himself as a kind of reporter, whose job it is to observe his own characters and analyse what they do and how they behave.»

Gary Evans,
ImagineFX Magazine

«Florian describes his own work as “fusion cuisine.” It combines two of the art styles he grew up with: first, the North American style of Disney’s Walt Kelly and Don Bluth, and Chuck Jones of Warner Bros. Second, the influence of European comic artists like André Franquin, Maurice De Bevere (aka Morris) and Giorgio Cavazzano. “I often get the feedback that my style has this Disney feel to it, but more zany, or angry.”»

Gary Evans,
ImagineFX Magazine

«[...] You have THE MOST creative and clever ways to design ducks. I want to visit a whole gallery full of your amazing and charming work.»

Genevieve Tsai,
Supervising Character Designer on Animaniacs, WARNER BROS. ANIMATION

«I modeled these [penguins] from Florian Satzinger's designs. These became a focal point of my portfolio back in 2010 and ultimately landed me a Job at Disney. Huge respect to Florian's genius!»

Ryan Tottle,
Modeling Supervisor, WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS

«Great work... so much character!»

David Komorowski,
Head of Characters and Technical Animation at WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS

«The quality of Florian’s sketches reminds me of the Golden Age mid-century Disney and Warner Bros animation where every line had a lively motion and projected a three-dimensional sense of volume of the character.»

Johanna Schwaiger,
Program Director, NEW MASTERS ACADEMY,
Los Angeles, CA

«You own the duck world. No one should ever attempt to draw another duck. End of story.»

Thomas Fluharty,
Illustrator and Caricature Artist, THE NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, MAD MAGAZINE, THE VILLAGE VOICE

«You're crazy!!!»

Achdé (Hervé Darmenton),
Lucky Luke

«Great take on Daffy [Duck]. Hilarious. You’ve completely maintained his prick-ness. Real talent, Florian. This is the only real reboot potential Daffy I’ve ever seen. [...]»
«More animated than most recent films, with just a simple still drawing. Amazing [...]»

Steve Williams,
Film Director (Disney's 'The Wild'), Academy Award nominated Visual Effects Artist ('THE MASK'), Chief Animator 'TERMINATOR 2', 'JURASSIC PARK', 'THE ABYSS', 'JUMANJI' etc.

«You really do embody the old essence of Disney ... even more than Disney. More than Disney today any way.»

Bob Jones,
Character Designer, 'THE WISHMAS TREE', UNIVERSAL PICTURES/ODIN'S EYE

«A classic vintage Mickey, with a Chaplinesque grin, follows the timeline of his past adventures... In the meanwhile, a new unseen Mickey is sipping a tea cup, waiting for new landscapes... Visions suspended between the past and the future, conceived by Florian Satzinger, the award-winning concept artist and character designer.»

Federico Fiecconi,
Curator of DISNEY'S MICKEY: The True Original Exhibition, Castello di Desenzano, Italy

«[...] this man is a duck fiend. Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, “duck-tape”—never have I encountered an artist more dedicated to the proliferation of duck-related media [...]»

JJ,
Character Design Blog

«Achdé [...] already calls him the "master of the ducks".»

Ars Electronica Center

«Unique in the world with these extraordinary characters.»

Bruno Bozzetto,
Academy Award nominated Film Director

«"Inspiring … yet depressing … maybe I can still get that job at Wal-Mart.»

Eddie Pittman,
Disney's 'Phineas and Ferb'

«sick sick sick talent ...»

Alex Orrelle,
'SPACE JAM 2', Head of Story, WARNER BROS. ANIMATION

«One of my favorite artists [...]»

Jake Parker,
Founder of InkTober

«An excellent draughtsman.»

Douglas Goldsmith,
School of Visual Communication Design, KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

«Florian Satzinger is an animation expert, trust us, we know.»

KLEAR,
Leading Data Influencer Marketing Software Platform

«Florian Satzinger has a drawing style with a snap and verve that harken back to the best of classic Disney and mid 20th Century Warner Brothers animation. The lines with which he delineates his characters zing, bounce and swoop so delightfully that they suggest lively motion even before they’re animated. Satzinger credits Southworth as his major influence, and his work in the style of great classic hand-drawn animation shows his continuation of that tradition.»

Charley Parker,
LINESANDCOLORS.COM

«Florian Satzinger: a Carl Barks on steroids.»
(Florian Satzinger: um Carl Barks com esteróides)

via MARCAMARIA.COM

«Florian, you've been an amazing influence on my art for almost ten years now, and will be for years to come!»

Jay Fosgitt,
Comic Artist, MARVEL COMICS

«Florian Satzinger set the style for CTNX with the red "X" in the eyes in 2009. Florian designed the “X” in the eyes with his Ducks in such a appealing way that they have become a signature to CTN.»

CTN,
THE CREATIVE TALENT NETWORK®, Burbank, CA

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."
Amazon UK

"End of the year must have cartooning products [...] DUCK: Birds And Pencils"
The Daily Cartoonist

"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[...]"
via FlightPattern

"[...]a wild and awesome collection of duck sketches in crazy flying machines and other fantastic adventures[...]"
Arjan Wilschut

Sample pages:

'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"
Labyrinth Books

Nemoland

Behind the scenes of science fiction and fantasy

NEMOLAND (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.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008