Throwback duck bits

Throwback Monday

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

Fahrenheit 451

Process bits

Process bits, Fahrenheit 451

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

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

DUCK Corp. silhouette design kit update

The kit will come with full instructions (eggs not included).

The kit will come with full instructions (eggs not included).

DUCK Corp. silhouette design kit

Silhouette design kit

DUCK AWESOME

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

Hijacking, still

Hijacking (or re-designing) vintage toys and photos from the 1960s and classical 19th century fine-art pieces was an essential part of a full-scale visual development project I'm right about to finish. I'll put a finer point on that shortly. (Photos via/courtesy of The Bat Channel)

Stay awesome, ducks!

He goes with many names ...

Wonderbeak and Steam Duck are just two of them.

Bosewicht

Complete rough process break down.

The Duck Inn: Hijacked

Welcome to my mind

Visual Development

These are the early development sketches for John Starduck's rocket ship. The final design changed a bit since these were made but to this later ... I just wanted to share some rough concept stuff.

Frequently Hijacking Albert Bierstadt

I love to hijack Albert Bierstadt's sugary landscape paintings of the American West because of the excessive use of light and exuberant romanticism in them. These features work so well with my animation design work.

Original painting: "Indians Spear Fishing" by Albert Bierstadt (1862).

Ducks in my head, again

Ducks In My Head

My brain kind of automatically produces certain shapes and colours which helps me a lot to save time and energy in visual development processes. On the contrary, working with intuition only easily can lead one to lack variety. So it became extremely important to me to constantly influence or inform my visual development work by adopting ideas from all kinds of references from the fields of industrial design, architecture, fine arts, photography, engineering etc.
Reference materials: Albert Bierstadt (painting), Paul Arzens (car)

Ducks in my head

I Drive The Car I Want To Drive

Here, I built one of my characters directly into the mood/style reference, just to get a taste for how it works in direct interplay.

Detail ...

John Starduck Rocket Ship Shape Reference/Inspiration: Cloth Cover from 1961

First Men to the Moon, reprint (1961) (via Dreams of Space)

Designing Away

Designing away the past mistakes of the First Industrial Motorbirds Revolution.
Reference photo (skeleton) via/by Brandon Kihl. All rights reserved.

Reference: Photographer Chris Lord, Duck Pond, Central Park, NYC

The very first idea for having John Starduck based in New York City I had quite some time back at the Duck Pond in Central Park. The photo background here I hijacked from uber-talended photographer Chris Lord; he was looking across the duck pond from west to east with Fifth Avenue in the distance.

I saw a little more in the snow ...

(Photo: courtesy of/copyright by Chris Lord. All rights reserved.)

By the by, Lord's photo reminds me a little of Adolf Fassbender's 'White Night' painting, which dates back to 1936. A piece that I can't get enough from: