The Paperwalker Journal - Florian Satzinger: 2017

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 The Zanuck Company – 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, 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.

All reference/inspiration material here (i.e. all material not originated by the author of this blog) is solely the property of their respective owners, the use here does not imply that you may use the material for any purpose other than for a similar informational or inspirational use. This blog journal is basically dedicated to inspire professional animation artists, animation students and everyone who is interested in the animation art form to use their talents. If you find any content here that belongs to you and you want it down or has not been properly attributed, please contact 'hello[at]paperwalker[dot]com', thank you.

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Friday, December 15, 2017

'Third Space Duck' - extremely limited art print

Get it here: BAKERHOUSE GALLERY - This is a high quality art print of the original preliminary piece for a large-scale painting which is already in the pipeline, going with the title 'Third Space Duck'. The painting will be the first of a series of Pop art paintings involving ducks.

Photos via Pixabay (Tasos_Lekkas/pcdazero)

Monday, December 11, 2017

Instagram 48h Auction

Auction: CLICK HERE

You're bidding (in the comments section below) on a unique original preliminary blue-pencils drawing of a large-scale painting which is already in the pipeline, going with the title 'Third Space Duck' (the painting will be the first of a series of paintings involving ducks). Payment must be made via Paypal, shipping is free. Bidding starts at $190 and ends at 6PM, Pacific Time (PT), Wednesday, December 13th 2017. "Buy it now" option: $490 (Photo: Pixabay/3dman_eu)

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) am 12. Dez 2017 um 8:24 Uhr

Instagram 48h Auction! Purchase this original blue Col-Erase(R) pencils preliminary #duck #drawing (a melting of two Pop art icons) by Florian Satzinger by bidding in the comments section below. Blue pencils on 11,69 x 16,53 inches (29,7 x 42 cm) 80g white paper. Payment must be made via Paypal, shipping is free. Bidding starts at $190 and ends at 7PM, Pacific Time (PT), Wednesday, December 13th 2017. "Buy it now" option: $490 - In addition, the hand signed and hand numbered limited (25) high quality colour print of the finished piece on Hahnemühle Photo Rag(R), size 12,99 x 15,94 inches (33 x 40,5 cm) is available through Bakerhouse Gallery (link in profile).

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) am 11. Dez 2017 um 9:51 Uhr

Monday, November 27, 2017

Love Me, Fear Me: Trailer

A fusion of taste, style, skills and talent, Veronica Solomon's graduation film at Filmuniversity Babelsberg.

Love Me, Fear Me - Trailer from Inkamon on Vimeo.

Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Tom

Reposting mood ...

Sunday evening reposting mood

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) am 29. Okt 2017 um 10:38 Uhr

Monday, October 16, 2017

DD

Painted bricks

Well, that's different

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) am 12. Okt 2017 um 2:12 Uhr

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

DMGP

Donald, Mickey, Goofy, Pluto (via)

Thursday, September 14, 2017

One more

An André Franquin sheet, in all its original glory. "Gesundheit!"

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Yet again, André Franquin

Yet again, André Franquin #love

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) am 13. Sep 2017 um 4:46 Uhr

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

André Franquin

Characters I grew up with. Rare Gaston Lagaffe sujet.

Monday, September 11, 2017

André Franquin

Probably the greatest cartoonist in history.

Wednesday, September 06, 2017

Drawn dessert

Carl Barks by Al Hirschfeld (image via)

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Twinkles, 1960s General Mills Story Book Package

Today's mood elevator comes right from the 1960s. (image via)

Friday, August 18, 2017

I like Tweety best

Twelve popular characters transformed into monsters by Dennis Carlsson. Terribly beautiful, click here to view the gallery at PoMoFo.

Still, nothing beats the classic monster tweety bird from 'Hyde And Go Tweet' (1960), of course.

Image: Phantom City Creative

Thursday, August 10, 2017

Random duck in a Donald Duck costume

Birthday drawing for my mate Tom Lohner. Blue Col-Erase pencils on paper.

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) am 9. Aug 2017 um 11:00 Uhr

Wednesday, August 09, 2017

Chuck Jones: Sketches

This sheet makes me happy.

Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Throwback duck bits

Throwback Monday

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) am 31. Jul 2017 um 9:14 Uhr

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Process bits

Duck Corp. Neck Expander X-3000i

Process bits

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) am 20. Jul 2017 um 3:05 Uhr

Friday, July 07, 2017

Fahrenheit 451

Process bits

Process bits, Fahrenheit 451

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) am 7. Jul 2017 um 0:43 Uhr

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Via juxtapozmag

Smashing ...

It happens... wait for it... @_estebandiacono

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Juxtapoz Magazine (@juxtapozmag) am 28. Jun 2017 um 17:18 Uhr

Friday, June 23, 2017

Tightrope Walker

They say, there is nothing so fatal to a character as half finished tasks. That is why I finished my very part on an almost never ending project, last week. Now, we come down the stretch. BTW, this very duck here represents how I felt until last. :-)

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) am 21. Jun 2017 um 10:18 Uhr

Thursday, June 22, 2017

The Simpsonsfication of Bruno Bozzetto

This is so beautiful.

Friday, June 16, 2017

Motor glove

Process bits

New toy

Saturday, June 03, 2017

Fuel

By Camille Jalabert

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

The Wonderful World of Walt - Episode 1

Friday, May 19, 2017

References

References break down; this is an example I often show at workshops, bringing together pretty different references to build something new out it.

This is an example I often show at workshops, bringing together pretty different references to build something new out of it. (References: photo by J. Knox, Shen Shaomin's "unknown creature"; Disney's Pluto. All rights reserved)

Sunday, May 14, 2017

Shanghaiing Carl Barks' Donald Duck

Shanghaiing Carl Barks/Donald Duck, forcing Donald to wear one of my rucksack gears, even his beak's shape changed ... plus motorleg extensions.

Shanghaiing Carl Barks/Donald Duck, forcing Donald to wear one of my rucksack gears; even his beak's shape changed ... harharhar

exhibition photo via

Thursday, May 11, 2017

Hyungkoo Lee

I can't stress often enough how important it is to encounter Hyungkoo Lee's work.

Tuesday, May 02, 2017

Radar Men from the Moon

The Sky Marshal appears to defy the laws of gravity, for a moment at least, as he lands in the arms of a prop man during production of the film. Production photo, "Radar Men from the Moon," at Red Rock Canyon in the Mojave Desert, 80 miles northeast of Hollywood, Calif., Dec. 12, 1951 (via).

Monday, May 01, 2017

John says

"It is a monster, my rocket ship. It is not dead metal; it has a life of its own."

John Starduck, freely adapted from Guenter Wendt's quote

Friday, April 28, 2017

Weekend treat: Carl Barks, comic book cover artwork, 1962

Image: All copyrights belong to their respective owners.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Knife sharpened pencils

In my little digitally-drawing world going analog is like a breath of fresh air...

Friday, April 07, 2017

John Starduck References: Kurt Roeschl, space art

Kurt Roeschl (1923-1986) was an Austrian graphic artist and painter who illustrated various science-fiction stories in the 1950s.

Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Keep-It-Loose-Meter

Monday, March 20, 2017

May the ducks be with me

May the ducks be with me

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Carl Barks: Magazine Donald Duck, model sheet

"Drawn with R. Esterbrook art & drafting pen #356"

Image courtesy: Disney

Friday, March 10, 2017

Legendary model sheet segment: Uncle Scrooge McDuck by Carl Barks

Carl Barks establishes some rules for drawing his creation, Scrooge McDuck (via)

Image courtesy: Disney

Thursday, March 02, 2017

DuckTales Reboot - First Look

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Beaks and peckers

For the love of beaks and peckers.

For the love of beaks and peckers. #characterdesign #sketch

About Me / Story

Florian Satzinger 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, The Zanuck Company, 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

«[...] 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.

Friday, December 15, 2017

Monday, December 11, 2017

Monday, November 27, 2017

Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Monday, October 16, 2017

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Monday, September 11, 2017

Wednesday, September 06, 2017

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Friday, August 18, 2017

Thursday, August 10, 2017

Wednesday, August 09, 2017

Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Friday, July 07, 2017

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Friday, June 23, 2017

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Friday, June 16, 2017

Saturday, June 03, 2017

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Friday, May 19, 2017

Sunday, May 14, 2017

Thursday, May 11, 2017

Tuesday, May 02, 2017

Monday, May 01, 2017

Friday, April 28, 2017

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Friday, April 07, 2017

Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Monday, March 20, 2017

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Friday, March 10, 2017

Thursday, March 02, 2017

Thursday, February 16, 2017

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DUCK - The Mag For The Birds Presents: Florian Satzinger's BIRDS AND PENCILS

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