Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation

INTRODUCTION

Working with film is challenging as you are creating thousands of pictures. They are all connected throughout a story with several actors: human or animals, cartoony, realistic or very stylized and, with lots of emotions, action and fantastic worlds. You are part of a creation process in which a dream world comes alive. It is scary and fascinating at the same time. So many artists create one piece of art that you alone would never be able to do.

What does it mean — Production Design? Exactly that, the design of the production; the “look” of the film. Of course, the Production Designer does not do all that independently. The vision ...