The Paperwalker Journal - by Florian Satzinger: 2021

Friday, December 31, 2021

HNY

New Year's Eve telephone doodle ... Happy New Year, everyone!

#happynewyear

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Duck People

In a narrow sense, I don't draw ducks but people with beaks.

#characterdesign #visualdevelopment #roughsketching #beaks #cartoonducks #artistsonblogger #animationart #duckpeople #duckland

Sunday, December 26, 2021

The extremely rare smokestack-horn winter lizard. The species is a little larger than a squirrel, it is only active at night and feeds itself primarily on gift wrapper leftovers, milk and cookies. It survives on its own stored fat during its extremely long hibernation from February to November.

#stylized #characterdesign #cartoonanimals #fictionalanatomy #lizard #animationdesign #roughlayout #artistsonblogger #sketchingart #throwbackartwork

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Explosive Trees

My friends, whether you celebrate or not, I wish you a wonderful holiday season!

*By the by, the new 'ACME Idiot Detektor 3000' comes with the ACME doomsday tree decorations for free. You'll find it in the 'Explosive Austrian Trees' aisle in your nearest Wipe-Out DIY warehouse.

#seasonsgreetings #happyholidays #duckland #artistsoninstagram #iamcrazy #acme #explosivetrees

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Masterclass

Here are some bits from my live character design demo segment at Nemo Academy's Masterclass, last Tuesday. The character was created from scratch and became a mixture of a goat-ish dragon-dogbird, with a strong reference to Pablo Piccasso's 'She-Goat' sculpture and André Franquin's weird machinery designs.

Photo: via Artsy, © Musée Picasso Paris/Béatrice Hatala © Succession Picasso 2014 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

#characterdesign #masterclass #workshop #florence #nemoacademy #artistsonblogger #references #shegoat #PabloPiccasso #AndreFranquin Nemo Academy of Digital Arts

Saturday, December 11, 2021

Last Gig This Year

Alright, we're heading to Florence, tomorrow. For a masterclass at Accademia Nemo, December 14th 2021, Teatro della Compagnia.

Teatro della Compagnia (image via)
#AccademiaNemo #florence #italy #masterclass #characterdesign #animationdesign #artistsoninstagram

Tuesday, December 07, 2021

ACME Gift Bag Hat

Another rough character layout process time-lapse of a goatish reindeer, going with the name "Nitro", Santa's forgotten No 10. The full rough layout shows Donald Duck on a 313 sled "Rosebud X", wearing an ACME Gift Bag Hat (Mod.No. 2412XL).

WATCH IT ON INSTAGRAM: CLICK HERE

#DonaldDuck #characterdesign #roughlayout #drawingprocess #timelapse #bluepencils #artistsonblogger #ACME Credit to https://www.FesliyanStudios.com for the background music.

Friday, December 03, 2021

Stretched Duck Legs

Stylized Donald Duck, 'stretched version', rough drawing process, time-lapse.

WATCH IT ON INSTAGRAM: CLICK HERE

#DonaldDuck #visualdevelopment #characterdesign #conceptart #disney #characterart #timelapse #characterdrawing #digitalart #artistsoninstagram #artprocess #love
Music: bensound.com

Thursday, December 02, 2021

Cartoon Physics

My day today, in anticipation of tomorrow. How was yours?

#characterdesigner #selfportrait #cartoonphysics #cartoonduck

Sunday, November 28, 2021

Gulf Fox

Process follow-up to the little Gulf racing-blue fox guy from a couple of days ago.

#drawingprocess #cartoonfox #developmentart #animationdesign #artistsoninstagram #characterdesigner #throwbackmaterial #gulfcolours

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Post-Thanksgiving Sphere Syndrom

Happy Holidays, everyone!

#DonaldDuck #sphereshape #sketchbook

Monday, November 22, 2021

Three

Just got my third shot. 'Feel like this little guy, now.
#ɢᴇᴛᴠᴀᴄᴄɪɴᴀᴛᴇᴅ #booster

Sunday, November 21, 2021

Air Rucksack, Mod Nr 313

«... becoming weightless and slipping the bonds of gravity.»

#DonaldDuck #sketch #preliminarydrawing #conceptart

Friday, November 19, 2021

Washing Instructions: ACME's Rocket Skull Supersuit. Mod. No. 666-Eddie

Alright, the washing instructions are out:

- Do Not Dry Clean
- Iron, Low Temp
- Hand Wash, Normal

You're welcome!

#ACME #supersuit #design #inspiration #eddie #ironmaiden #eddiethehead #rocketsuit #backgroundart #mauricenoble #roughlayout

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.

Friday, December 31, 2021

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Saturday, December 11, 2021

Tuesday, December 07, 2021

Friday, December 03, 2021

Thursday, December 02, 2021

Sunday, November 28, 2021

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Monday, November 22, 2021

Sunday, November 21, 2021

Friday, November 19, 2021

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