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Framed Environment Design

by Marcos Mateu-Mestre

Designing environments that serve the story

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Designing environments that serve the story

Framed Environment Design treats settings as active parts of visual storytelling across film, animation, graphic novels, and illustration. Marcos Mateu-Mestre traces the design process from early research and initial thinking through to finished environments, pairing explanations with extensive illustrations and sketches. The examples range across historical and futuristic architecture, natural landscapes, and fantasy scenarios, showing the breadth of settings the book addresses. Its emphasis is on how environmental choices can work alongside characters and narrative, making the book a practical look at the thinking and visual decisions behind world-building for visual media.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Creators studying environment design for film, animation, graphic novels, or illustration
  • Readers interested in visual storytelling and world-building
  • Artists seeking illustrated examples of a design process from research to final work

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Environment designVisual storytellingWorld-buildingResearch and design process

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Book overview

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.
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