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 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 – 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 distinct satiric imitations, 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, December 31, 2011

Plato



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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Batbirds: First Snow!

I hadn't the time to clean-up the lines, I right away coloured the rough sketchwork here. Smashing holidays and a Happy New Year, everyone! Later!

Photo references: via Church of... and Summer Bellessa (Twiggy)

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Super!

This is just super!


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Friday, December 16, 2011

Space Age Rocketship Firebird I - Mod. Chandler 3000-Xi

This is the finished rocketship design. I BTW posted some rough process pieces in a post before, right over here.
Here's the colour palette I was working with, accurately picked by Space Age Film's Robert Chandler:

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Warm-Up: Owl Inspired Critter

Love the expression of the owl! (via)


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Monday, December 12, 2011

Some 70s Inspiration: Kill With Class

Michael Caine is Jack Carter in "Get Carter", 1971. (via)


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Some Gauntly Inspiration: Christmas Demons

Here in Austria, on December the 5th, we celebrate "Krampus", a kind of horned demon or devil who once a year comes to town and snatches up the naughty children. Really creepy tough stuff, isn't it? :) Anyway, I'll stay with the ducks...




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Friday, December 09, 2011

Today's Warm-Up Sketch

A very fast one :) Plus inspiration.


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Wednesday, December 07, 2011

The Future Was Going To Be Glorious

This is kind of... colossal! I'm so in love with this photo. It's real! No film set, no fiction, just smashingly real. (via The Church of...)

The first Salon de locomotion aerienne, 1909, Grand Palais, Paris

The influence on the pieces below is obvious, isn't it? ;-)


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Friday, December 02, 2011

Nice Reference Photo


An interesting piece of art from obsolete technology (via Magazine13).

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Thursday, December 01, 2011

Working With References: Space Age Rocketship


This is quite a good example of how I go about using references for a new design. The reference photos are BTW all coming from the Modern Mechanix Blog.

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And The Winners Are...


Alright, I printed and cut out all the participants' comments, put them in Laura's "fortune helmet" and drew 5 out of it (by the way, I decided to raffle 2 prints more off). The lucky winners of the Grand Motorbirds Art Print Giveaway are as follows:
Yair Katz, Owen Williams, Jon di Venti, Jeremiah Kuch, Edward C. Abarilla and Kelly Loosli!
Congratulations! Please email me your post address at helloATpaperwalkerDOTcom. I will send out the prints right during next week.

Thanks everyone for entering the raffle!

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