Hans Bacher: New Book!

This is splendid news! Hans' SKETCHBOOK is printed and will be on the shelves within the next 4 weeks, as well available through Amazon.

Alfred J. Kwak

By tomorrow, July 5th 2014, at the Herman van Veen Arts Center, Netherlands, the grant Alfred Jodocus Kwak exhibition will open its doors. In word, sound and vision. It is to be understood as a deep bow of adoration for the late Harald Siepermann's work. I'm glad and thankful for having become a part of this very duck's journeys and I look forward to the things coming up.

Hans Bacher: Escape From Toontown

«I recently found the ‘finale’ for the Toontown sequence in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, a part of a storyboard that Harald Siepermann and I created in the summer of 1987 in the AMBLIN-studio on the UNIVERSAL-lot.»

Hans Bacher/full article

Image via Hans Bacher's weblog. All rights reserved.

Kwak

I had a lovely time visiting Kwak and his best friends...

Testing

Alfred Jodocus Kwak, some rough warm-up test sketching.

Kwak is such a well designed character, thought up by Dutch singer/writer Hermann van Veen, this very duck was designed and one-of-a-kind visually-deployed by a German dream team of animation artists, the late Harald Siepermann, one of the foremost character designers on this very planet and Hans Bacher, one of the most profiled art directors in the animation business.

Alfred Jodocus Kwak

Rough sketch test. For Harald and Belicta.

Another Process Film Clip: Rough Construction

Well, the character design of this bear here is indeed not that inventive, but it shows nicely how I get startet when I begin a new digital sketch.

P.S.: Don't miss Hans Bacher's latest post, which is, as he writes, the first of a series of posts on legendary Disney artists. And, btw, Paris based artist and fellow The Art Center team-mate Xavier "XAV" Ramonède posted a beautiful step-by-step run of his latest illustration. Check it out right over here! So, last but not least, it's always a delight to stop by Studio Soi's Newsblog and Hat's smashingly beautiful artbox of tricks!

Work In Progress 6 from Florian Satzinger on Vimeo.

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Tomorrow

Alright, the "Bacher Week" at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg will start right tomorrow... I've packed all my pencils, paper and smiles and I'm ready to go! I'll try to post some photos of the animation week here shortly...

In order to get attuned properly to this very week, here are two 'Beauty And The Beast' storyboard drawings by Chris Sanders and a story sketch (below) by Glen Keane, all of them coloured by Hans Bacher:

© Disney (via Hans Bacher's weblog)

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Hans Bacher Goes Alps

I'm glad and happy to be able to announce that Joey Schinwald and I succeeded in bringing Hans Bacher (IMDb), Annie Award winner and art director of Disney's MULAN and Amblin's BALTO, to Salzburg this October: A Week With Hans Bacher, October 11 - 17, 2010, Campus Urstein, University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Austria.

Photo © FH Salzburg

"Hans Bacher is a rare person - a top of the tree professional artist, production designer, animator, archivist, and generous teacher."
Richard Williams, Animation Director of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'

"I have been lucky to have known Hans Bacher and learned from his genius for over 30 years. When it comes to color, composition and design, Hans is in a class by himself."
Andreas Deja, Supervising Animator, Walt Disney Studios

Source: Animation Treasures © Bacher (1)/Disney (3)/Valiente (1)/Universal, Amblin (1)

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Photos © FH Salzburg (2)/Daniel Seeger (1)/Wikimedia (1)

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