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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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Radio Controlled Pet In Manhattan

Last year, we spent about 4 weeks in NYC. I've done a lot of sketching there, at places like Central Park, Bryant Park and Union Square... Bryant Park by the way I liked best regarding sketching around, watching people and stuff.


That summer, we also had the joy to meet up with Tina Roth Eisenberg in her studio in Brooklyn. I still owe her a swiss-miss-branded duck. Which is so very nearly finished since last year, only the final clean-up is missing...

(above from left: Maryam Laura Moazedi, Tina Roth Eisenberg and me behind the camera)

Photos © Maryam Laura Moazedi. W.r.r.


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Monday, May 30, 2011

The Mountain

Purely tremendous (via OnAnimation):
"This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide. Spain´s highest mountain @(3718m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world´s best observatories."


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Friday, May 27, 2011

Mattias Adolfsson: The First In Line

I'm a great admirer of Mattias Adolfsson's work and style, now, his first personal book is out, full of selected artwork from his sketchbooks. Yay! Check out his blog for more details... and don't forget to view the assorted pieces section!

Images © by Mattias Adolfsson. World rights reserved.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

How To Draw A Duck

This is the very man who is behind my enthusiasm for drawing ducks and all kinds of bird-like characters. Jeremy Townsend aka Jimmy Jammz from Super Experts U.S.A., enjoy:



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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Apropos Future of The Past: Yesterday's Cars of Tomorrow

As a visual development artist I collect reference materials a lot. Like this very clip which inspired pretty much several vehicles I did some time ago for a Red Bull project. In one of my next postings I'll give an example of exactly how, in detail, those "retrofuturish" things affect my design work.



By the by, this here is one of my all time favourites, the Bugatti Atlantic. They only built 3 or 4 of them: Click here for the YouTube clip


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Monday, May 23, 2011

Pure Inspiration: Magic Highway USA (1958)

How Disney saw the future of highway transportation. I really love the art direction on this.


© Disney Corp. World rights reserved.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Motorbirdcopter Super Suit 3000e

This is the rough design of a little gift for my pal Achdé I'm working on. It's a sort of further stage of the "Lucky Duck" I did 2 years ago. I stressed the "Motorbirdpunk" features a little more than in the earlier version. I'll post the finished/coloured piece at a later time...


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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Alex Orrelle

This is the current Animation Reel of my uber-talented blood brother Alex. He's a true wiz in every aspect of animation, enjoy:


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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Rough Artwork

This is a rough visdev piece out of a stack of early concept sheets for Toby Skybuckle©. This gives btw nothing away. I won't do any spoilers here. It's just a wild rough sketch with no relevance for the story...

Toby Skybuckle © Florian Satzinger/Ankama Editions. W.r.r.

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