COAT OF SMILES, parody art of iconic symbols. A duck's hat, a mouse's ears and a smiling yellow button. Three iconic things brought together in one artwork.
The PAPERWALKER Journal is the personal weblog of DUCKLAND creator and award-winning character designer Florian Satzinger – who worked on characters such as Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes (Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Silvester etc.), Pinky And The Brain, A.J.Hogg and Scooby-Doo, for studios such as Warner Bros., Disney, ReelFX and Zanuck Family Entertainment – in which he shares bits and pieces of his character design work, processes, visual development, inspirations and reference materials of current, past and future projects.
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PLEASE NOTE, the displayed parody artworks of classical cartoon characters are not copies but distinct satiric imitations/caricatures, by exaggerating and transforming the original characters and their related indica (see 'Coat of Smiles') in a way that creates new originals and new meanings, different from the intentions of the originals.

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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Under The Oak Tree

Just a quick post on the fly... via On Animation (LOVE the duck character btw)

Well everyone, I'm still away on work related things until mid of march, more or less. Cheers from the (long) road :)




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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Radio Controlled Mon

It finally assumes control over its own life.


BTW, sorry for the lack of posts and replies. I'm traveling a lot this month and have and will have not much time to update my blog. See you then! :)

Update: Hand Reference! Another great post on the Academy of Art Character And Creatures Design Notes blog:


Update2: Hu, new! Check out SKOTTIESCOTT, Scott's and Skottie's daily character sketches!


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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Ars Electronica Center: Fish Tank Mangarium

I'm looking forward to March 4th 2011 at the Ars Electronica Center where my buddy Achdé (Lucky Luke) and I will drop our designs into an animated digital fish tank.


And these here were the earlier sketches, I already posted them some weeks ago. The big one with the duck was btw my favorite but he was technically too difficult to do:


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