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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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Duck

Unfinished test from a DD project, a couple of years ago. This was a personal warm-up piece, to become ready for the "operation".

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Friday, December 16, 2016

Best nine 2016

Thank you for your likes!

Monday, November 28, 2016

DUCK AWESOME

First bit ... it won't be long until the ducks are ready to get down to business, finally.

Friday, November 18, 2016

Happy CTNX weekend, everyone!

And this is where you can find me: 1) Friday Nov 18: 01:00-01:45 PM Live Demonstration: Florian Satzinger 2) Saturday Nov 19: 03:00-03:45 PM Conversation with creators: Florian Satzinger 3) Saturday Nov 19: 06:30-07:15 PM "A character design conversation" with Bobby Chiu, Boris Bakliza, Florian Satzinger, Francesca Natale and Daniel Arriaga. For the complete event schedule CLICK HERE ...

Monday, November 07, 2016

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Marc Davis' pencil

Quite recently, Federico Fiecconi invited me to doodle with Marc Davis' (MARC DAVIS!) own original mechanical pencil! The outcome was this odd little piece of sketch that doesn't have any purpose other than to smash some really fast lines on the paper and see what happens. Anyways, back at my desk, I started refining and preparing the level for detailing a little, just for the fun of it.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Animation art from the Masters

If you happen to be in Bergamo, here a recommendation: There is currently a wonderful exhibition "dalla carta ai cartoni" curated by our amazing friend Federico Fiecconi. The exhibition - located in the breathtaking Monastero di Astino - comprises original drawings by Mark Davis, Winsor McCay, Chuck Jones, Bruno Bozzetto, David Silverman, Otto Messmer, Genndy Tartakovsky, Walt Kelly, ... from Snow White, Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Fantasia, Donald Duck, La Linea, ... Impressive, you'll see.

Friday, September 23, 2016

Jim Henson Teaches Us How To Make A Muppet In 1969

Jim Henson and Muppeteers show kids how to make puppets from simple things like socks. This video aired on Public Television in 1969, prior to Sesame Street, on Iowa Public Television's "Volume See" kids' show. www.iptv.org

(Thanks, Laura)

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Friday, September 09, 2016

Upright format

I'm not sure if it's only me but, sometimes, I enjoy to rotate the screen in order to work in portrait format, it has a kind of a scaffold feel to it. This BTW really works lovely with tall characters and all sorts of upright format things.

Thursday, September 08, 2016

Bozzetto Non Troppo - Official Trailer

"A legend, like my father" (Diane Disney Miller)

Monday, September 05, 2016

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Coyote

Layout/Colour reference, Maurice Noble (c) Warner Bros. All rights reserved.

Monday, August 29, 2016

Nelbert

Book trailer for 'Nelbert the Introvert' by Shiyoon Kim, available at www.shiyoonkim.com
Trailer:
Trailer Pencil Test:

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Mort Drucker

The National Cartoonists Society has released a 40-minute video profiling legendary cartoonist and illustrator Mort Drucker.

via

Good night, everyone ...

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Before the guys arrived

Thursday, August 04, 2016

A mouse

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Mouse, off-model

"The Hijacked Icon" Here is the hijacked piece in its full looney glory: ... and this is the original piece by John Hench: Original artwork (c) Disney. All rights reserved.

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Disney's Aristocats: rare production photo

Ink and paint department, ca. 1969.

Friday, July 22, 2016

The Litterbug (1961)

Love the art direction on this.
(c) Disney. All rights reserved.

Update: Here are two Donald Duck model sheets from that period (images via Tom Simpson):

Monday, July 18, 2016

Space Age Monday, let's just say

"André Courrèges’ 1960s Space Age Fashion and clear plastic blow-up furniture by Emanuelle and Quasar Khan."
via Atomic Flash Deluxe

Sunday, July 17, 2016

One million dollar photo: construction of the Atomium

Monument and symbol, built for the World Expo 1958 in Brussels. (Photo by/courtesy of Dolf Kruger)

What Carl Spitzweg saw and what I see really differs...

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Hägar the Horrible

I always have been a huge fan of Chris Browne's Hägar the Horrible, so, a short while ago I did this kind of an animated-feature-ified version of Hägar for a character design demo at FH Salzburg. The background is borrowed from an Albert Bierstadt painting, again.

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Carl Barks: The Dickens of Duckburg

This is an article on Carl Barks which appeared in the 1992 periodical, Comics Scene Yearbook.

via Filmic Light; image scans courtesy of Dan Alexander Dizmentia

Saturday, July 09, 2016

Friday, July 08, 2016

Beak-free drawing

"Tom" ©/courtesy of Warner Bros. All rights reserved.

Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Jimmy Cauty

James Francis Cauty, one of my artist heroes.



Especially, I loved his "Splatter" exhibition at the Aquarium in London, from quite a couple of years back. (Photos via Hypebeast)