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, July 25, 2019

Character design, rough digital sketch bits

Figuring out the right level of detail for this duck's super suit, not sure about adding a mask to it, let's see.
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Tuesday, July 09, 2019

The Smiling Skull Quatrychon

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Saturday, July 06, 2019

Beaks and (digital) Pencils

A pencil is to me as a beak is to a duck. (loosely based on J. R. R. Tolkien)
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Jolly Roger

Just for the fun of it, logos nobody was waiting for.
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Friday, June 07, 2019

The Duck Laboratory

Some shape thingies from my duck laboratory, simple beats complex.
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Tuesday, June 04, 2019

The Juxtapose Thing

The world's greates super hero.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

ImagineFX Interview

Gary Evans did a several pages long interview with me for ImagineFX magazine's next issue (all about animation) which will be on sale in the UK on Friday. Preview/Sampler: ImagineFX 175 (Sampler)

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Thursday, April 18, 2019

This is Donald Duck's headgear for Ascot

Seen at the Duckberg Fashion Week 2019.
#popartlife #popart #fashionvictim #globalicon #characterdesign #artistsonblogger #parody
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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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