Teaching Animation Design Or...

...what I think animation design is. This is btw a fast sample design (bg and character) I did today for the course I run here in Salzburg.

Warm-Up Sketch; Captain Christmas 2.0

Update (FRIDAY, June 5, 2009): Besides the Toby Skybuckle and StarDucks tasks I'm playing with a re-design of our Captain Christmas character for some action figure plans we're discussing here. Motto: The decent chap-hero becomes an almost invincible superhero. "Almost" being the operative word.

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Original entry from Wednesday: Starting with tomorrow, I'm officially back to work at my (more and more digitally) drawing desk after this very time in Florence.

Spider Man's Drawing Request And A Look Back On Nemoland 2009

Today, I do a double-post or a two parts entry of sorts.

Part one: Fellow colleague and good friend Francisco Herrera (Spider Man, Superman) asked me do a very own pin-up drawing on one of his characters for his next book. And here's the fruit, the ACME Wondermotorbra 3000D-T (coming with a built-in tea cooking feature):

I really do like space around the characters, much space. The original background I painted was that size:

The roughs, finally:

Part two: A look back on Nemoland 2009 in pictures

This is the Nemoland Award 2009 statue I got from the Accedemia Nemo, wonderfully rendered by the fabulous Paolo Chiari:

Fellow animator and comic artist Flaviano Armentaro and me in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Sala Luca Giordano. Fab' place, absolutely. This was, btw, the very place where they gave me the dragon statue:

Nemoland family portrait 2009. From right: Super duper director and animator Alex Orrelle (Finding Nemo, Incredibles), me, Sire Giuliano Cenci (Grisu, Calimero), Paolo Chiari (master of trolls and dwarfs) and Luca Chiarotti (Accademia Nemo).

Photos: Maryam Laura Moazedi

Some pics from the exhibition in the Gipsoteca Fiorentina will follow. I'm still stunned by the appeal and the impact of this very spot. It was indeed a magic place to let my ducks 'n' critters out...

The Show's Over...

It was a wonderful time here, absolutely. I'll miss everybody very much... and I will try to post more on this fab' week in Florence as soon as I'm back to Austria. And finally, btw, I had this very steak. Gosh, what a bloody beast, J.P.!!

Photos: Maryam Laura Moazedi

The Critters Have Landed In Florence...

StarDucks alongside of Michelangelo. Smack my a** and call me Sally :)

Pet Bogeys

Update (Wednesday, May 13, 2009): Recently, I sended a bundle of original roughs to Florence for an exhibition. Hope they'll like my scratchy pieces...

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Original post from Tuesday:
I did those so long ago that the paper of the original sketches is turning yellow... creepy.

The same goes for the paper of this sketch, btw. But who cares?

Horrors

I've some very busy days lately... and traveled way too much.

Update: Hey, Pixar will open a second studio in Vancouver. Nice, good choice... ;) Here are btw some pics of my personal Vancouver history...

Photos: Satzinger & Hardenberg Archive

Sorry for the lack of quality of the photos.

Genio Fiorentino: Nemoland Event/Workshops

This is a quick info update to whom it interests: I will give workshops at the Instituto d'arte di Porta Romana and Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence within the scope of The Genio Fiorentino 2009, starting with May 20 till May 23, 2009.

Besides the workshops, there will also be an exhibition of my designs (over more than 150 rough pieces, finished works etc.) in the Gipsoteca Fiorentina at the Instituto Statale d'Arte di Firenze, from May 20 till June 6, 2009. Title: "Of Critters, Ducks And Dragons"

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

May 20-21: workshop - room “Aula Magna” at the “Instituto d’arte di Porta Romana”
May 22-23: workshop - room “Sala Bruno Giordano” at “Palazzo Medici Riccardi”

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Peewee

I'm still occupied with administering business things - but anyone who's waiting for files, news, replies to comments etc. from me can now rest easy :) Finally, I'll return to "real work" on Wednesday, this week.

I forgot to mention, that many of my birdish critters are quite inspired by Austrian-Bavarian mythical creatures like the "Raurackl", "Rasselbock" or "Wolpertinger" (a horned rabbit of sorts) or the "Basilisk beast"...

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...

Birdish Gizmo With Cloud

I'm off for a week or so. See you then... (This colourful critter is for a dear friend's project, btw. "Btw" is my word on this blog, no?)

New Teaser: Toby Skybuckle

Cleaned up preview piece.

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

StarDucks Rider

Sorry for not posting in a while. I had some really serious troubles with a new clean-up technique. Anyway, the things work well, now ... this piece was done the old way, btw.