Development and Commercialisation of an Animation Project
Look Development: design of characters and backgrounds
A course by Simon Barrionuevo , Executive producer and animator
Joined December 2018
About the video: Look Development: design of characters and backgrounds
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how to incorporate the art of backgrounds or environments, in addition to the characters specially developed for a project. Both are key aspects to show how the series will look and how the tone of the series will be communicated.”
In this video lesson Simon Barrionuevo addresses the topic: Look Development: design of characters and backgrounds, which is part of the Domestika online course: Development and Commercialisation of an Animation Project. Learn to sell your animated stories on the international market.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now we enter the part that all the artists were waiting for, the "look development". It is the part where we design all the characters and funds from our Bible and it has to be based on the layout we just made. In this lesson we are going to talk about character design and backgrounds. The "look development" of our Bible. Before entering the final characters of the work we do, I will show a little of the process, how the character designs got along little by little until it becomes what we are currently seeing. If you remember the Gollem that comes out in the animation, went through this pr...”
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Course summary for: Development and Commercialisation of an Animation Project
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3D, Animation, Art Direction, Character Design, Marketing

Simon Barrionuevo
A course by Simon Barrionuevo
Simón Barrionuevo is a graduate animator of the Arcos Professional Institute in Santiago de Chile (Chile) and, since 2005, he is dedicated to the professional practice of animation paperless for series, advertising, short films and films. He has also participated in traditional animation projects, cut-out, flash and 3D.
He is currently the executive producer, director and co-founder of Wild Bunch Studio, an award-winning animation studio with clients such as Cartoon Network and Discovery Kids.
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