A background artist or sometimes called a background stylist or background painter is one who is involved in the process of animation who establishes the color, style, and mood of a scene drawn by an animation

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artist. The methods used can either be through traditional

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

or by digital media such as

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. Traditional methods involved painting entire production scenes for a

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or film. Current methods may involve painting primarily background keys or the

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while production background artists paint the corresponding background paintings. Some fields in which a Background Artist may work: *

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Other

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s who contribute to animated cartoons, but who are not Background Artists, are layout artists (who design the backgrounds, lighting, and camera angles),

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artists (who draw panels of the action from the script), character designers (who create the style and personality of each character). In Japanese animation, the cast member credited as the Art Director (美術監督, bijutsu kantoku) usually refers to the sole background artist (for smaller productions) or director in charge of background art creation.

Background Artists

List of some famous background artists: * Toby Bluth -

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* James Coleman -

* Eyvind Earle -

* Paul Julian - Warner Bros. * Barry Kooser -

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* Brice Mack -

* Maurice Noble - Warner Bros., MGM Animation * Kazuo Oga -

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, Madhouse *

Walter Peregoy Alwyn Walter "Walt" Peregoy (November 17, 1925 – January 16, 2015) was an American artist who was a color stylist and background artist for animated cartoons. Among the studios he worked for were Walt Disney Productions 1951–1964, 1974–1983, ...

Format Films Format Films was a television animation studio which was founded by Herbert Klynn in 1959 with Jules Engel as vice president, Bob McIntosh and Joseph Mugnaini, all of whom were animators. It was most active during the 1960s, producing episode ...

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* Tyrus Wong -

, Warner Bros. * Kōji Yamamura - Independent *

Yale Gracey Yale Gracey (September 3, 1910 – September 5, 1983) was a Disney Imagineer, writer, and layout artist for many Disney animated shorts, including classics such as ''The Three Caballeros'' and '' Fantasia''. Gracey joined the company in 1939 as a ...

- Disney *

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- Disney *

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- Disney *

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-Disney * Bi Wei Tronolone - Disney *

Shinji Kimura is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: * Shinji Aoyama (真治), a Japanese film director * Shinji Aramaki (伸志), a Japanese anime director and mechanical designer *Shinji Hashimoto, a Japanese game produc ...

Kobayashi Production Kobayashi (written: lit. "small forest") is the 8th most common Japanese surname. A less common variant is . Notable people with the surname include: Art figures Film, television, theater and music *, Japanese actress and voice actress *, ...

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