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.
©2026 by Florian Satzinger. World rights reserved. | 104,7M VIEWS | Instagram | Page | Bēhance



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.
All reference/inspiration material here (i.e. all material not originated by the author of this blog) is solely the property of their respective owners, the use here does not imply that you may use the material for any purpose other than for a similar parodistic, informational or inspirational use. This blog journal is basically dedicated to inspire professional animation artists, animation students and everyone who is interested in the animation art form to use their talents. If you find any content here that belongs to you and you want it down or has not been properly attributed, please contact 'hello[at]paperwalker[dot]com', thank you.


Connect with Florian Satzinger: follow us in feedly

Thursday, April 06, 2023

Destination Moon

Rough concept vs finished sujet, 🚀 'John Starduck' (ca. 2018). I think that I never posted the initial sketch of this, which was BTW inspired by a production still from the Sci-Fi classic 'Destination Moon' (1950).

#visualdevelopment #characterdesign #conceptart #FlorianSatzinger #JohnStarduck BG: #CarlSpitzweg #hijackedpainting #artseries #satire #parody
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Friday, March 31, 2023

Step by step

Literally and figuratively.

#FlorianSatzinger #characterdesigner #visualdevelopment
Please check out THIS VERY LINK for more.
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities

My Domestika course has finally gone live! You're gladly invited to follow THIS VERY LINK.

#FlorianSatzinger #onlinecourse #drawing #animalcharacters #characterdesign #domestika
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

313 TNT Darkmobile

Donald Dark's car is here, finally. Actually, its rough design. World, please meet the "313 TNT Darkmobile", inspired by the shape and form of a stick of dynamite.

#DonaldDark #DonaldDuck #satire #caricature #characterdesign #floriansatzinger #roughlayout #roughsketch #darkmobile #newOffice #PalaisDobler #SalonNapoleon
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Thursday, March 23, 2023

DD

Donald and I have different opinions as to how the legs should look.

#DonaldDuck #roughdesigns #developmentsketches #visualdevelopment #conceptart #characterdesign #testing #FlorianSatzinger
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Evel Eagle

Untitled eagle character design, ca. 2021.

#characterdesign #cartooneagle #workinprogress #roughvsfinal #ACME #FlorianSatzinger #eveleagle #evelknievel #parody
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Monday, March 20, 2023

The Three Kings

Rough layout sketch, "Wacky Races Special Guest Racing Team".

#wackyraces #guestteam #DonaldDuck #MickeyMouse #Goofy #dreamteam #satire #caricature #floriansatzinger #characterdesigner
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

That feeling has never changed

#selfportrait #floriansatzinger
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Monday, March 13, 2023

Sokol Prize 2023

"I was so lucky to honor my colleague Florian Satzinger with the Sokol Award 2023 for digital caricature and to exhibit three of my original paintings in the Karikaturmuseum Krems. Thank you so much to the museum‘s team!"
Sebastian Krüger

#sokolprize #award #sebastiankrüger #floriansatzinger #karikaturmuseumkrems #kunstmeilekrems #erichsokol #caricature #satire #MariLang
Photo Credits
Karikaturmuseum Krems/APA-Fotoservice/Schedl
Photos: Ludwig Schedl
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Donald Duck, rough test

Speed digital shading test. The initial drawing was done with a regular jumbo size blue pencil on paper, the rest of it was executed in Photoshop. BTW, I lively remember watching John Carpenter's 'The Thing' the first time, way back in the 80s, this was the test scene's starting point, here.

#DonaldDuck #conceptartwork #testing #newprocess #roughdesign #sketching #DenisPierreFilippi #FlorianSatzinger
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Bye Bye

Today's the last day of my exhibition at Caricature Museum Krems. Thanks a million for all the wonderful feedback from all over!

#floriansatzinger #characterdesigner #karikaturmuseumkrems #kunstmeilekrems #satire #caricature #parody #animationdesign @karikaturmuseumkrems #kunstmeilekrems
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Friday, February 17, 2023

Throwback

Red Bull character design samples from ca. 2008-2009. Art directed/supervised by Rob Rottensteiner.

#throwbackfriday #redbull #rookiebullz #characterdesign #visualdevelopment #conceptart
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Thursday, February 09, 2023

Temper

Classic Donald Duck title card reimagined, focusing on his temper that made him a star.

#DonaldDuck #backtoDuckburg #DenisPierreFilippi #FlorianSatzinger #conceptart #visualdevelopment
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Biohazard!

Discarded rough layout test from 2021. It's really a very, very hazy piece but I still enjoy its animated qualities.

#preproduction #roughlayout #behindthescenes #conceptart #visualdevelopment #DonaldDuck #DenisPierreFilippi #FlorianSatzinger #glenat #comicalbum
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Friday, January 27, 2023

Donald Duckling

Duckburg, US West Coast. In the 1930ies. Donald Duckling and Gyro Gearloose grew up in the same hood, of course.

#DonaldDuck #satire #artwork #DonaldDuckling #roughdevelopment #earlycolorsketch #roughlayout #characterdesign #floriansatzinger #handdrawn
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Monday, January 23, 2023

Pencil 8B,
Ø 5,3 mm

#pencil #artisttools #drawing #pencildrawing #drawingonpaper #sketching #origginaldrawing #floriansatzinger #characterdesigner #mouse
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Rough vs Finished

'Duckland' pre-production art (2021) excerpt, rough layout vs finished. Kasematten, Schlossberg, Graz.

#duckland #preproductionart #characterdesign #exhibition #floriansatzinger #animationart #drawingprocess
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Monday, January 16, 2023

Coats of Mouse

Commissioned designs from late 2020.
Mickey and the Beanstalk (1947), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1940), Steamboat Willie (1928) and Brave Little Tailor (1938).

#MickeyMouse #shortfilms #mickeyandtheBeanstalk #SorcerersApprentice #steamboatwillie #bravelittletailor linktr.ee/FlorianSatzinger | Original idea by Stan Ward
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments

Wednesday, January 04, 2023

«The complexity of Donald Duck's nature in one image.»

I had to sketch this because it's been rattling around in my brain for a couple of days now. No time for colours and clean lines, just the rough drawing.

www.linktr.ee/FlorianSatzinger
#DonaldDuck #caricature #FlorianSatzinger #characterdesigner #roughdrawing #originalsketch
Posted by Florian Satzinger 0 comments
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)