Marcos Mateu-Mestre - Framed Environment Design

About the book

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

Framed Environment Design presents the artwork behind designing environments 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, Marcos 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.

About the artist

Born in Palma de Mallorca, Marcos Mateu-Mestre is a visual developper, storyboard and graphic-novel artist, as well as an illustrator. He has been working in animation since 1991 (for 2D backgrounds, 2D layout, storyboard, visual concept and development) and has written several books about graphic design. He currently working for Dreamworks.

You can listen to a podcast interview of Marcos Mateu-Mestre on Basic Brainheart!