Framed Environment Design

Lead animation designer and graphic novel artist Marcos Mateu-Mestre presents the newest edition in his bestselling Framed series. Framed Environment Design introduces the artwork, wisdom, and philosophies of designing environments for film, animation, graphic novels, and illustration to become part of t he story and serve a narrative purpose.

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 a s part of the same actions and emotions.

From historical epic to futuristic architecture, and natural environments to fantasy scenarios, 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 incredi ble array of visual ideas and solutions.