Framed Environment Design

New from the animator and illustrator behind your favorite DreamWorks and Netflix films, the next installment of the Framed series will help creators design a world that comes to life.

Framed Environment Design presents the artwork, wisdom, and philosophies behind designing environments for film, animation, graphic novels, and illustration so that they serve a narrative purpose and become part of the story. With informed methodology and special care for the smallest details, environment design can inspire script visualization, making it come alive in meaningful ways--together with the characters--as part of the same actions and emotions.

From historical epic to futuristic architecture, and natural environments to fantasy scenarios, in this newest addition to his best-selling Framed series, Mateu-Mestre illuminates the full process in great detail. Starting with the early research stages and thought process all the way to the final design--employing hundreds of carefully created and never-before-seen illustrations and sketches--the reader can not only follow the detailed explanations but actually make sense of them through an incredible array of visual ideas and solutions.

Marcos Mateu-Mestre (born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain) is a lead animation designer and graphic novel artist with more than three decades of experience in feature animation. His work in film, primarily for DreamWorks Animation, Netflix Animation, and Sony Pictures Animation, has focused on environment design as well as the cinematic aspects of frame composition, lighting, and visual continuity.

Beyond his film work, Mateu-Mestre has shared his experience in five international best-selling books--all of which have been translated into numerous foreign languages expanding their reach even further. He has also taught drawing, illustration, and visual storytelling techniques for more than a decade. Mateu-Mestre currently lives in Los Angeles and works at Netflix, credited as production designer on the feature animated film Ultraman: Rising.