COAT OF SMILES, parody art of iconic symbols. A duck's hat, a mouse's ears and a smiling yellow button. Three iconic things brought together in one artwork.
The PAPERWALKER Journal is the personal weblog of DUCKLAND creator and award-winning character designer Florian Satzinger – who worked on characters such as Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes (Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Silvester etc.), Pinky And The Brain, A.J.Hogg and Scooby-Doo, for studios such as Warner Bros., Disney, ReelFX and Zanuck Family Entertainment – in which he shares bits and pieces of his character design work, processes, visual development, inspirations and reference materials of current, past and future projects.
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PLEASE NOTE, the displayed parody artworks of classical cartoon characters are not copies but distinct satiric imitations/caricatures, by exaggerating and transforming the original characters and their related indica (see 'Coat of Smiles') in a way that creates new originals and new meanings, different from the intentions of the originals.

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Monday, August 02, 2010

Duck Raffle: Win This Original Rough Sketch!

Update: The Duck Raffle ends on Monday, August 9th 2010, 22:00h (MET) and I'll announce the winner right here on Monday.


Final Update: The winner is Tom Galvin from Dublin, Ireland! Many, many thanks to all of you for the lovely feedback. Every single comment here made me smile bigger and bigger. CHEERS!

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First off, I'm willing to own up that I'm addicted to ducks and mad motor rides with legs and beaks. Sorry BTW for posting just rough pieces at the moment and no finished things and sorry for the lack of replies to comments and e-mails - I'm a little underequipped here. In fact, I'm posting from a netbook and time is running way too fast here in NYC.


Second off (I stole this idea BTW from Jake Parker), I will send the original rough sketch here together with a signed copy of my book "Birds And Pencils" to a randomly selected blog visitor from this posting's comment section. The only thing you have to do is to tell me who you are and what you do or how you found my blog. I'm just curious who comes around here. Thank you in advance!


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Monday, July 26, 2010

Sorry About The Lack Of Updates Lately...

I'm quite busy on a number of different things here. I'll catch you later. BTW, here are some recently done rough sketches...


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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Fresh From The Press


Yesterday, I met up here in NYC with Brandstudio Press' super kind and super funny head Alberto Ruiz to pick up an exquisitely printed production copy of my new art book 'Birds And Pencils'. For those who are interested in purchasing this very book, please click on the BUY THIS BOOK button:

Hard cover, 8.5x12 inches, 48 pages, full-color, full bleed, sewn pages.


Photos © 2010 by Satzinger & Hardenberg Feat. W.R.R.

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Monday, July 12, 2010

I'm An Alien, A Legal Alien.

I'm a duckman in NY...

Photos © 2010 by Satzinger & Hardenberg Feat. W.R.R.

...always with a pencil in my teeth.

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Monday, July 05, 2010

Paper Ladder

There's not much to say about this one except that I use lines of action like twisted stave lines of sorts.


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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Parcours

For me, fun is still a high priority.


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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Birds And Pencils

This art book will be released within the next weeks. I will keep you updated about it.

All images © 2010 by Satzinger & Hardenberg Feat. W.R.R.

Update: Here's a work-in-progress piece (which is not in the book) I put together for my recent post at 'The Art Center' blog:


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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Drawing Desk

Recently I was flipping through a couple of older sketches for some art book related things and found this really wicked piece. Which I should really get round to clean up some time.


Hey, this is from my analog era! Paper and pencils! :)

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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Telephone Doodle Smoke

Well, this piece is quite a bit strange, isn't it?


The story behind this piece is that last week, my students and I were exploring the bone structure/locomotory system of elephants and were watching the Disney short 'Goliath II' and became totally lost in designing characters from those references. The funny legged monsters (below on the right) are btw by the talented Dustin Schiele. Great abstraction on the theme, love it.


For the most beautiful elephant designs on this very planet please go over here, Andrew's talent is high at the highest levels.

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Thursday, June 03, 2010

The Elephant With A Beak

Well, unsurprisingly for me, the elephant got a beak.


However, surprisingly, no motorpunk device or thing anywhere. Apropos deformation, look what Andrei did on the Wolfman! Holy moly!

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