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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Geoscientist

On my drawing desk, as we speak. Greatly inspired by my brother Valentin. I'll post the finished piece right tomorrow...




The colours I'll work with:

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

La Carrera: StarDucks Steampunk Racer Leads!

This is news! Results after day 3 (Historic A PanAm Class): 1st Place #277 Volvo piloted by Lars Kroiss.


Photos: © Lars Kroiss


Photo: © The La Carrera Panamericana Blog




Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Loopy

Didn't I tell you before? I'm a bit loopy... and affected with Steampunk disease.


Optional equipment: WiFi steering wheel.




Photos: © Satzinger & Hardenberg Archive

I took the colours both from the Red Bull corporate colours and from this photo I made in Santiago de Chile.


Wednesday, October 15, 2008

StarDucks: Birdish Critter In Motorsuit

An antagonist of sorts.

There is no denying that the inspiration came from those photos I took at the city zoo of Cordoba, Argentina. I have quite a fixation on Pelicans, haven't I?

On a totally unrelated subject: Did I mention that I love Steve Lambe's work so much that it hurts my head? And the same goes for Martin Wittig and fellow Matt Williames, who, btw, recently became a "hand drawing resident nomad" at this tiny aspiring studio :)






Photos: © Satzinger & Hardenberg Archive

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Rutger: Inspired A Little By Pelicans...

This is another supporting birdish critter from the StarDucks' characters cosmos.





Photos: © Satzinger & Hardenberg Archive
Pelicans are pretty cool birds, aren't they? I took those photos at the Pacific coast of Chile, two weeks ago.


Generally, I begin working with a particular colour concept in mind.


Friday, October 03, 2008

StarDucks: An Earthbird's Tales

I did that piece right after crossing the Andes, some weeks go. I'll tell you a little more about StarDucks really soon now...



The colour palette I worked with.





On the bottom right, that tiny thumbnail is for Flaviano. Talking of pals, Achdé (Lucky Luke) did a brill caricature of Lee Van Cleef.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Done!

... and I'm going home. And I swear that I'll start answering my mail really soon now! Update (TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2008): I'm home and all run down after about 15 hours of flight. Read you soon!





BTW: Did you see Jake's sub candy? It's definitely worth a look.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Pixel 3.0 Symposium, Vienna


BTW: This October, we'll speak at the Pixel 3.0 Symposium about our developmental work etc. I'll add some more information to this post a little later - I'm still abroad. A big sorry for not answering e-mails at the moment. I'm too busy with travelling, presentations etc. I'll reply as soon as I'm back at the studio. Update (WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2008): Alright, here's a wee bit more on the Pixel Symposium in Vienna (Oct 25 and 26). So far as I know dear colleague Maryam Laura Moazedi (StarDucks Prod.) will be there with me as well as Lee Stringer (LucasArts) and one of the good boys from Ambient Entertainment.


Monday, September 08, 2008

Colour Inspiration

The trees still have no leaves on their branches. Well, it's still winter, here. Update (TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 09, 2008): What I've forgotten to mention is that this "weaponish" horn up the front is a motor horn. The only thing it hurts is one's ears. A flying cheers from Cordoba (ARG)!




Monday, September 01, 2008

Muzzle Flashes

Sorry for the lack of updates and replies! We're terribly busy ('n still terribly far away) so I'm bad about answering e-mails and comments. Below you find two early sketches of some minor characters for the StarDucks project. I hope I can post some coloured/finished pieces, soon.



After all, I'm thinking (and my dear pal Herrera is forcing me :) of doing a sketchbook sometime in the near future. The title should probably read "On Critters, Ducks And Dragons And Sundry Other Things And Hobs".