Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
Influences
A course by Florian Satzinger , Character Designer
Joined November 2021
Joined November 2021
About the video: Influences
Overview
“There is a wide range of influences and references I use. In this lesson, I will show you some books which helped and still help me a lot in my process. ”
In this video lesson Florian Satzinger addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities. Explore anatomy, perspective, volume, light, and shadow to bring human-like animal characters to life on the page.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Influences In this lesson, I want to share with you a couple of books that are quite important to me and my work. The first book I want to share with you is a book in German called "Tiere zeichnen," which means drawing animals. It is a book about how to draw animals in a very realistic way. You can find in this book... simple drawings or paintings of the shapes and silhouettes of horses, for instance, and a lot about the bone structure of horses. Not only horses, but you'll also find deer. Again, horses because they are very complex animals. You find dogs, big cats, and deer again. The bo...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Florian Satzinger
A course by Florian Satzinger
Florian Satzinger is an Austria-based character designer and visual development artist. Inspired by the classic, hand-drawn Disney films of his childhood, he went on to study fine arts and animation before launching his freelance career. After building a portfolio of advertising projects, he ventured into the animation industry, creating poster and cover art for Looney Tunes Magazine. Impressed by his illustrations, the Vice President of Walt Disney International contacted him and invited him to join the development team.
During his time at Warner Bros. and Disney, Florian collaborated on some of the most iconic cartoon characters in history, including Donald and Daisy Duck, Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Sylvester. He has also worked for businesses like The Zanuck Company, ReelFX, Space Age Films, Psyop, Ravensburger North America, Facebook, Budweiser, Coca-Cola, Red Bull, and Snapchat. In addition to the art he’s created for the animation and comic-book industry, he illustrates satirical cartoon caricatures that are regularly displayed in galleries like the Caricature Museum in Krems, Austria.
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