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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Thursday, April 18, 2019

This is Donald Duck's headgear for Ascot

Seen at the Duckberg Fashion Week 2019.
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Thursday, April 11, 2019

Throwback Thursday Double Pack

Exactly one year ago, Laura and I were hosting a class on character design at Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg, Ludwigsburg, Germany. It was like a king's breakfast. Smashing school, great students, good times.



And secondly, here's some throwback reference fun. This is BTW mostly due to my obsession with everything Eustace Tilley, the famous dandy character peering at a butterfly through a monocle, originally drawn by Rea Irvin, the first art director of The New Yorker, for the cover of its first edition in 1925.

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Thursday, April 04, 2019

Throwback Mouse Thursday

Mickey Summit, Castello di Desenzano, February 2019. Quality time with the Disney family. Thanks to Federico Fiecconi who made this happen.
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Wednesday, April 03, 2019

Drawing a duck

This is my usual rough drawing process compass, making the character ready for clean-up and final colouring.

And here's some additional reference material ... (via Giphy)
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Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Flight Simulator Xi8000, DUCK Corp.

First technical draft of the automated flight simulator system Xi8000.


The first flight simulator based on an octahedral hexapod as in the mid 1960s (via/courtesy of Klaus Cappel). BTW, there's more about flight simulators of the past right here ...


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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Mouse, Mickey Summit, Castello di Desenzano, February 2019

Rough sketch vs clean-up.
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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Mouse steps

"Sketches force your imagination to do the rest of the work explaining the image. Your brain fills in the tiny details and gets excited in the process." (Alice Tsymbarevich)

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Throwback Wednesday: Duck Corp's Silhouette Kit 3000xi

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Saturday, January 19, 2019

Prescribing Bambi, Increasing Empathy

Image courtesy of Disney, all rights reserved.

David Berry Jr, a poacher from Missouri, was arrested last August with his father and brother for killing hundreds of deer, taking their heads and leaving the bodies. Judge Robert George ordered him to watch the Walt Disney movie Bambi at least once a month during his time in prison (via).



"Cinema, like all art forms, is an empathy machine: it expands our perspective and invites us to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes – or hooves, in the case of Bambi."
Ryan Gilbey




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Thursday, January 03, 2019

Disney's Mickey: The True Original Exhibition - 90 Years of Magic

Finally, we made it to Desenzano. What a beautiful show. I'll post some impressions of our visit a little later. By the by, two of my original Mickey Mouse works were included to this official Disney exhibition celebrating Mickey's 90th birthday (there were only two exhibitions worldwide, the one in New York City and the one in Castello di Desenzano).

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