1970 Plymouth Road Runner 2-Door Hardtop

For my love of magazine advertisements from the 1960s and 1970s:

«We first introduced Road Runner in '68. It was love at first sight. A performance car for people who want a car to perform. A car with a low price for people who haven't stashed away their first million yet. A car with a personality for people who don't just think of a car as a hunk of iron that moves. It all clicked. In 1969 Motor Trend named Road Runner, "Car of the Year". For 1970, we present a new Road Runner. We changed it very carefully. In the right places, for the right reasons. You'll love it. Again. The loved bird.»

(Plymouth Road Runner Magazine Advertisement from 1970, Chrysler Motors Corporation, image via Alden Jewell)

Well, and then there is the 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird, here in 'Lemon Twist Yellow', but that's a different love story ... (image via FastMuscle)

Not forgetting "King" Richard Petty's #43 Plymouth Superbird in 'Petty-Blue': (image via/by Stuart Mitchell, all rights reserved)

(image via/by Stuart Mitchell, all rights reserved)

(images via/by Hemmings.com, all rights reserved)

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)

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).

Space Age Monday, let's just say

"André Courrèges’ 1960s Space Age Fashion and clear plastic blow-up furniture by Emanuelle and Quasar Khan."

via Atomic Flash Deluxe

Dog Tuning

Reference photo via Maddie On Things, courtesy of Theron Humphrey.

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

Electra

‘L'oeuf Electrique’, an electric car from 1942, designed by Paul Arzens, France.
Here is another beauty by Paul Arzens, ‘La Baleine’ (the whale), from 1938.

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 ...

Cintiq Of The Past

Touch screen technology prediction in a French children's encyclopedia from the 1970s.

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

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

Portland, Maine, 1960s

Reference photo heaven.

This is a du ... don't!

Stop it, Alfred!
Photo: courtesy of its respective owner, all rights reserved.

New York City: Grand Blizzard of 1888

Winter

New York City: Grand Blizzard of 1947

Winter

Another Hijacked Piece

This is just a quick test from some time ago. Original painting by Albert Bierstadt.

Just a quick test from some time ago. Original painting by Albert Bierstadt.

Ein von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) gepostetes Foto am 4. Sep 2015 um 1:39 Uhr

And here is the other hijacked Bierstadt:

Here's the other hijacked Bierstadt.

Ein von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) gepostetes Foto am 4. Sep 2015 um 6:55 Uhr

Supermanmorning

Christopher D'Olier Reeve, Superman.

Dark Star

One of my most favourite spaceship designs, still.

Rex Space

What I forgot to mention is that Rex Space shops in the same places as where Chewbacca and Cornelius shop.

By the way, Rex Space shops in the same places where Chewbacca and Cornelius shop.

Ein von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) gepostetes Foto am 28. Mai 2015 um 5:04 Uhr