Biddington And Birtwhistle: 100 Years City Of Burbank - The Animation Capital Of The World

Biddington and Birtwhistle are two birdish side characters out of Toby Skybuckle© (a project I'm currently developing with France based Ankama Media Group). Besides, I brought those birds to use with this sujet below, which I was asked by CTN's Tina Price to create for Burbank's Centennial. I had a lot of fun designing this.

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Tweeter (ol' warhorse chicken)

*Todfeind: German word for deadly foe

Sorry again for the lack of updates, replies and answers. I'm terribly busy at work in parallel with preparing things for a longer work related stay (and holidays) abroad... happy holidays to everyone!

Unquestionably this very critter is inspired by Warner Bros' Tweety... and a little bit by my Latin teacher back in school.

Goob Creature

Images: Copyright © Satzinger & Hardenberg. W.r.r.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Toby Skybuckle will have some serious questions to answer about that skipper... Anyway, this is just a quick post on the fly. I'll be back to my drawing desk on Wednesday or Thursday Monday, April 27 ... see you then. Btw, in the meantime, you could perhaps check out Jake's props and vehicles sketches for the Horton movie...

New Teaser: Toby Skybuckle

Cleaned up preview piece.

Images: Copyright © Satzinger & Hardenberg. W.r.r.

Toby Skybuckle: Sneak Peek

For Jake Parker. And for Crisse too, naturally.

This was btw a very fast and rough rendering for some test clean-up purposes.

Toby Skybuckle: Colour Design Piece

This still's muddy colours are right from those photos of an old tree I took by the side of my town's river, today afternoon.

At the moment, I'm working on a kind of colour bible for each scenery of TS1. And in this instance, I generated a nice bark pattern, too, no?

Photos: © Satzinger & Hardenberg Archive

Update: Btw, nice find on BoDoi: "Lucky Luke version canard" - Hey, I'm from down under yet again... :)

Update 2: Jake was in one of his masterstroke moods again: A Map of Whoville

Toby Skybuckle: Teaser Sujet

"I, the Skybuckle,
promise to improve,
as from tomorrow."

TOBY SKYBUCKLE, adventurer

"A likely story,
snotty brat!"

HAROLD, dragon

"Listen to them.
Children of the night.
What music they make."

DRACULA, monster

TOBY SKYBUCKLE^©, Adventurer by Mistake - Book I, "The Fall". Btw, guess where the colours for this teaser come from...

I took those shots somewhere between Milano and Torino out in the country, last week. Splendid colours, no?

Photos: © Satzinger & Hardenberg Archive

Toby's New Year

I wish you all a Happy New Year! I for one will start working on Toby Skybuckle I (besides StarDucks of course), in January. Cheers and big thanks to Crisse and the good girls 'n' boys from Soleil Productions for letting this boy's adventures begin...

...I call this, btw, a Swiss sword. And I've had a few optional Austrian-Salzburgian extras installed ;)

Clean-Up Assistant Critter

My drawing desk, yesterday evening. (This li'l fellow's wearing an ACME Electric Clean-Up Suit, 4000 Steampunk model range)

Toby Skybuckle: The Rope Ship

Jake, Shane, Ryan... a little joyride around the block?

BTW: Please excuse my lack of emails or replies to comments at the present. I'm wrapped up in work at the moment.

Photo: Skeleton Nothosauria (via Wikimedia Commons)

The Party Is Over

Photos © Maryam Laura Moazedi

Well, all right! The days with Commander Kurth were great. I'll post some pics and stuff, soon...