The Paperwalker Journal - by Florian Satzinger

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Lost And Found

I completely forgot about these early rough designs of Donald Dark until I opened an unnamed WIP folder wondering what it was, so here you go.

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#DonaldDuck #Paperinik #characterparody #satire #caricature #artparody #DonaldDark #characterdesign #workinprogress #roughdesigns #speedsketches

Friday, September 16, 2022

Bread Hat

'Panther With Bread Hat', colour drawing (2022): Pink Panther wearing a Salvador Dali inspired bread hat; a breakfast bagel hat, actually. Enjoy your weekend, everyone.

Apropos: Salvador Dali
#pinkpanther #salvadordali #breadhat #bagel #caricature #characterparody #artsatire #caricature #museumart #floriansatzinger #karikaturmuseumkrems #kunstmeilekrems instagram.com/floriansatzinger

Handgun, literally

'Donald Dark', handgun gadget, battle mode II, rough sketch, partly coloured.

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#DonaldDuck #characterparody #DonaldDark #satire #Caricature #artparody #KarikaturmuseumKrems #KunstmeileKrems Karikaturmuseum Krems #floriansatzinger #roughlayout #roughsketch

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Duckland:
The Wingless Beast from Ingering

My drawing desk, today. I reworked the "Lindworm from Ingering" design, a wingless dragon-like beast from last year's Duckland show at the Kasematten theatre, for a new task.

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#characterdesign #duckland #reworking #editing #workinprogress #anthropomorphic #floriansatzinger #drawingdesk

Monday, September 12, 2022

Disney's LORCANA

I was, and still am, on the team of the Lorcana production (Ravensburger North America and Disney). This here was a personal piece I did upfront to the actual character work, warming myself up for the big adventure. I kind of slipped – in a metaphorical sense – into Mickey getting ready for the journey. LORCANA.COM

Especially big thanks to lead art director Matthew Eng for the guidance and support.

#Lorcana #Disney #Ravensburger #MickeyMouse #warmup #roughsketch #characterdesign
Lorcana ©Disney/Ravensburger. All rights reserved.

Friday, September 09, 2022

Simulator Kit

Flight Simulator Kit for wingless cartoon ducks, Duckland promo art.

#characterdesign #cartoonducks #duckland #floriansatzinger #LoudDuck #museumart #animationdesign #originalart

Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Process bits and pieces,
a lot of them

A history of creating the giant newspaper duck, taken together on one single sheet.

#drawingprocess #characterdesign #cartoonducks

Thursday, September 01, 2022

Giant Waterfowl

Giant cartoon duck trespassing Albert Bierstadt's Mount Corcoran painting (circa 1876-1877).

#albertbierstadt #giantduck #floriansatzinger #characterdesigner #hijackedart

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Big fat
drawing tool

Extremely soft black colour jumbo pencil, knife sharpened.

#drawingtools #mickeymouse #offmodel #drawingonpaper #originalart #floriansatzinger #characterdesigner #satire #charactersatire #caricature

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Fat 313

- Photo souvenirs - 'Fat 313' (2021), Karikaturmuseum Krems, July 17th 2022 - February 19th 2023.

Photos: Christian Redtenbacher ©Kunstmeile Krems; ©Paperwalker
#Fat313 #DonaldDuck #satire #caricature #contemporaryart #references #erwinwurm #mauriziocattelan #characterdesigner #floriansatzinger

Saturday, August 20, 2022

Mickey Mouth (2022)

As the title suggests ...

#MickeyMouse #satire #artparody #characterparody #characterdesigner #floriansatzinger #caricature #MickeyMouth #museumart #exhibition

Juxtapose. Recreated Mickey Mouse (based on a drawing by Ub Iwerks from 1928) vs Mickey Mouth, 2022.

Monday, August 15, 2022

Zeitungsente
(noun, german, literally = newspaper duck, figuratively = news hoax)

Early development sketches, "Zeitungsente". Art in architecture project, Styria Media Center, inner yard. I'll post the finished artwork vs some visual development bits in the next days.

#styriamediagroup #styriamediacenter #canard #floriansatzinger #characterdesigner #notahoax #diegroesstezeitungsentederwelt #artinarchitecture #popart #cartoonduck #drawingprocess #sketches

Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Fictional Anatomy

Cartoon hands studies, Karikaturmuseum Krems. July 2022 - February 2023.

#KarikaturmuseumKrems #floriansatzinger #characterdesigner #satire #Caricature #parodyart #museumart #anatomy

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a duck's house as to build a cathedral.”*

*Freely adapted from Frank Lloyd Wright: “Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
(Thanks, Judy M.)

Last weekend I joined the opening of my new art show, which centers about my character caricature design and animation design satire work, at the Caricature Museum Krems.

Here are some peeks at the show's venue, taken last Saturday, a few hours before the opening. Showing, among other things, one of the central works of the show, 'Donald Duck's suburban house meets Frank Lloyd Wright'.

"But what if Carl Barks had chosen Frank Lloyd Wright or the Brutalist Architecture Movement as reference for Donald Duck's home?"

#KarikaturmuseumKrems #characterdesigner #floriansatzinger #satire #caricature #popart #animationart #DonaldDuck #parodyart #domus #franklloydwrighthouse #franklloydwright

Friday, July 15, 2022

Only one more sleep

#KarikaturmuseumKrems #Exhibition #characterdesigner #FlorianSatzinger #caricature #satire #parody

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Only two more sleeps

#KarikaturmuseumKrems #Exhibition #characterdesigner #FlorianSatzinger #caricature #satire #parody

Friday, July 08, 2022

For Fury

Classical Donald Duck pose by Carl Barks, excessively exaggerated.

#DonaldDuck #drawing #pose #angermanagement #CarlBarks #originaldrawing #disneyartists #satire #caricature #KarikaturmuseumKrems
Donald Duck ©Disney. All rights reserved.

About Me / Story

FLORIAN SATZINGER,
ERICH SOKOL Prize winner 2023 (along with Gerald Scarfe), was a student of well-regarded Disney, MGM and Hanna-Barbera animator and animation director Ken Southworth («Alice In Wonderland», «Woody Woodpecker», «Tom & Jerry», «The Flintstones», «Peanuts», «The Smurfs») who influenced him greatly. Having worked for clients that include Warner Bros., Disney, Zanuck Family Entertainment, ReelFX, Space Age Films, Psyop, Ravensburger North America, Facebook, Budweiser, Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Bahlsen and Snapchat, Satzinger is now developing under the umbrella label DUCKLAND projects such as «DUCK AWESOME» and «JOHN STARDUCK» with Paperwalker Studios SHF.

Besides his industrial career, he holds a lectureship for character design, analog animation and animation history at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg (Urstein, Austria) and worked/works as a visiting dozent at art schools such as VIA University College's Animation Workshop (Viborg, Denmark), Film University Babelsberg (Potsdam, Germany), Film Academy Baden-Württemberg (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Beaux-Arts & Entertainment (Paris, France) and Accademia Nemo (Florence, Italy).

Florian Satzinger is a member of Los Angeles based Creative Talent Network, a community for the world's leading creators of both traditional and digital animated films.

Endorsements And Reviews

«Just put Disney, Franquin and Satzinger in a shaker... and here comes the magic liqueur.»

Jean Mulatier,
Caricaturist
(Esquire, Le Figaro, Time, Playboy, Elle)

«True genius pops it’s head out of the trenches about once every hundred years. Your brand of genius happens every time you create a new piece.»

Deane Taylor,
Art director of Tim Burton's NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

«[...] beautiful character work from Austria's Florian Satzinger, who blogs over at the Paperwalker Journal.»

Michael Canva,
THE WASHINGTON POST

«[...] you brilliant bastard»

Jeff Merghart,
Lead Character Designer, Concept Artist and Senior Animator, WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS.

«You do Warner Bros better than Warner Bros did Warner Bros.»

Mark Whiting,
Production Designer of THE IRON GIANT. 3-time Annie nominated Art Director and Production Designer.

«This Austrian artist (Florian Satzinger) has drawn some of the world's most iconic animated characters.»

Gary Evans,
ImagineFX Magazine

«I hate you and love you at the same time.»

Deborah Guedj,
Journal de Mickey, France.

«[...] the school that made a deep and lasting impression was Vancouver Institute of Media Arts. That’s where Ken Southworth taught. [...] Ken could teach without teaching, say something without actually saying it. He encouraged Florian to see himself as a kind of reporter, whose job it is to observe his own characters and analyse what they do and how they behave.»

Gary Evans,
ImagineFX Magazine

«Florian describes his own work as “fusion cuisine.” It combines two of the art styles he grew up with: first, the North American style of Disney’s Walt Kelly and Don Bluth, and Chuck Jones of Warner Bros. Second, the influence of European comic artists like André Franquin, Maurice De Bevere (aka Morris) and Giorgio Cavazzano. “I often get the feedback that my style has this Disney feel to it, but more zany, or angry.”»

Gary Evans,
ImagineFX Magazine

«[...] You have THE MOST creative and clever ways to design ducks. I want to visit a whole gallery full of your amazing and charming work.»

Genevieve Tsai,
Supervising Character Designer on Animaniacs, WARNER BROS. ANIMATION

«I modeled these [penguins] from Florian Satzinger's designs. These became a focal point of my portfolio back in 2010 and ultimately landed me a Job at Disney. Huge respect to Florian's genius!»

Ryan Tottle,
Modeling Supervisor, WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS

«Great work... so much character!»

David Komorowski,
Head of Characters and Technical Animation at WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS

«The quality of Florian’s sketches reminds me of the Golden Age mid-century Disney and Warner Bros animation where every line had a lively motion and projected a three-dimensional sense of volume of the character.»

Johanna Schwaiger,
Program Director, NEW MASTERS ACADEMY,
Los Angeles, CA

«You own the duck world. No one should ever attempt to draw another duck. End of story.»

Thomas Fluharty,
Illustrator and Caricature Artist, THE NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, MAD MAGAZINE, THE VILLAGE VOICE

«You're crazy!!!»

Achdé (Hervé Darmenton),
Lucky Luke

«Great take on Daffy [Duck]. Hilarious. You’ve completely maintained his prick-ness. Real talent, Florian. This is the only real reboot potential Daffy I’ve ever seen. [...]»
«More animated than most recent films, with just a simple still drawing. Amazing [...]»

Steve Williams,
Film Director (Disney's 'The Wild'), Academy Award nominated Visual Effects Artist ('THE MASK'), Chief Animator 'TERMINATOR 2', 'JURASSIC PARK', 'THE ABYSS', 'JUMANJI' etc.

«You really do embody the old essence of Disney ... even more than Disney. More than Disney today any way.»

Bob Jones,
Character Designer, 'THE WISHMAS TREE', UNIVERSAL PICTURES/ODIN'S EYE

«A classic vintage Mickey, with a Chaplinesque grin, follows the timeline of his past adventures... In the meanwhile, a new unseen Mickey is sipping a tea cup, waiting for new landscapes... Visions suspended between the past and the future, conceived by Florian Satzinger, the award-winning concept artist and character designer.»

Federico Fiecconi,
Curator of DISNEY'S MICKEY: The True Original Exhibition, Castello di Desenzano, Italy

«[...] this man is a duck fiend. Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, “duck-tape”—never have I encountered an artist more dedicated to the proliferation of duck-related media [...]»

JJ,
Character Design Blog

«Achdé [...] already calls him the "master of the ducks".»

Ars Electronica Center

«Unique in the world with these extraordinary characters.»

Bruno Bozzetto,
Academy Award nominated Film Director

«"Inspiring … yet depressing … maybe I can still get that job at Wal-Mart.»

Eddie Pittman,
Disney's 'Phineas and Ferb'

«sick sick sick talent ...»

Alex Orrelle,
'SPACE JAM 2', Head of Story, WARNER BROS. ANIMATION

«One of my favorite artists [...]»

Jake Parker,
Founder of InkTober

«An excellent draughtsman.»

Douglas Goldsmith,
School of Visual Communication Design, KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

«Florian Satzinger is an animation expert, trust us, we know.»

KLEAR,
Leading Data Influencer Marketing Software Platform

«Florian Satzinger has a drawing style with a snap and verve that harken back to the best of classic Disney and mid 20th Century Warner Brothers animation. The lines with which he delineates his characters zing, bounce and swoop so delightfully that they suggest lively motion even before they’re animated. Satzinger credits Southworth as his major influence, and his work in the style of great classic hand-drawn animation shows his continuation of that tradition.»

Charley Parker,
LINESANDCOLORS.COM

«Florian Satzinger: a Carl Barks on steroids.»
(Florian Satzinger: um Carl Barks com esteróides)

via MARCAMARIA.COM

«Florian, you've been an amazing influence on my art for almost ten years now, and will be for years to come!»

Jay Fosgitt,
Comic Artist, MARVEL COMICS

«Florian Satzinger set the style for CTNX with the red "X" in the eyes in 2009. Florian designed the “X” in the eyes with his Ducks in such a appealing way that they have become a signature to CTN.»

CTN,
THE CREATIVE TALENT NETWORK®, Burbank, CA

DUCK - The Mag For The Birds Presents: Florian Satzinger's BIRDS AND PENCILS

"A superb book filled with some of the best character and vehicle design around the wit involved is fabulous. This book is especially for those of you who loved the Ducktales and Darkwing Duck cartoons of the late Eighties and early Nineties."
Amazon UK

"End of the year must have cartooning products [...] DUCK: Birds And Pencils"
The Daily Cartoonist

"In a world that is dominated by ultra realistic cg, stuff like this is like a breathe of fresh air. Such great poses, lines of action and true composition[...]"
via FlightPattern

"[...]a wild and awesome collection of duck sketches in crazy flying machines and other fantastic adventures[...]"
Arjan Wilschut

Sample pages:

'Birds And Pencils And Sundry Other Things And Hobs' by Florian Satzinger (Brandstudio Press)

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

"[...]inspired by old school animation but at the same time is so much fun[...]makes me want to pick up a pencil and start creating"
Labyrinth Books

Nemoland

Behind the scenes of science fiction and fantasy

NEMOLAND (NEMO NT)

In May 2009, Florian Satzinger gave workshops within the scope of The Genio Fiorentino 2009, on the occation of the Nemoland event/conferment of the Nemoland Special Award in the Aula Magna at the Instituto Statale d' Arte of Florence, Italy. Former Nemoland workshop hosts/award recipients were animation directors and animators such as Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, Alex Orrelle (Pixar) and J.P. Vine (Aardman Studios). Besides that, there was an exhibition of Florian Satzinger's original artwork at the Gipsoteca of the Instituto Statale d' Arte.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

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Thursday, July 14, 2022

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