Directeur Artistique
Hamburg Area, Germany
- Current
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- Visual Development Artist - Concept artist at Dodecaden - Ninoneno
- Past
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- Production Designer - Visual development Artist at Studio SOI
- Owner and Production designer at Inuendo s.p.r.l. (Brussels)
- concept artist and Set designer at Vanguard Animation
- Production Designer at Studio Hamburg
- Senior Production Designer/ Art Director at Rothkirch/Cartoon Film (Berlin)
- Production Designer/Art Director at TFC trickompany (Hamburg)
- designer/key layout /Workbook Artist at A. Film A/S
- Visual Development Artist at Warner Bros. Pictures
- Production Designer at S.E.P.P. Brussels
- Education
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- Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles - Ecole supérieure des Arts
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Manu Arenas’s Summary
Production Designer and Art Director with a broad experience in all fields of motion pictures production and visual development in animated film industry since nearly 20 years.
Man Arenas started his career in Brussels in 1988, working for la S.E.P.P. in the visual development department for several animated TV series. Since then, he has worked on many animated feature films for companies such as Warner Bros, A Film, Cartoon Film, Studio Hamburg, TFC Trickompany.or Studio Soi.
From the beginning, he developed an interest for production design bringing to the normal design tasks a strong level of originality and poetry, inspiring other artists, not only in traditional animated films but also in 3D animated feature films and computer games.
Manu Arenas’s Specialties:
Visual Development and Concept Art, Illustration, Workbook and Storyboard Art,
Production Design, Graphic Novels, graphic Design.
All medias.
languages: English, Spanish and French
Manu Arenas’s Experience
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Visual Development Artist - Concept artist
Dodecaden - Ninoneno
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
January 2009 — Present (1 year )
Currently working as Art Director, Concept Artist and Storyboard Artist for the Animation Film production, Ads, TV and Comicbook Industries.
Clients: Warner Bros, Rothkirch/cartoon Film, studio SOI, Soleil... -
Production Designer - Visual development Artist
Studio SOI
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
May 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 5 months)
On "the Gruffalo" feature film
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Owner and Production designer
Inuendo s.p.r.l. (Brussels)
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
January 2007 — January 2009 (2 years 1 month)
Production Designer, Concept Artist and Storyboard Artist for the Animation Film production, TV and Game Industries.
Clients: Warner Bros, Rothkirch/cartoon Film, Vanguard animation, studio SOI, Twintime software & entertainment GmbH, A Film... -
concept artist and Set designer
Vanguard Animation
(Animation industry)
January 2007 — March 2007 (3 months)
Set designer, Visual development and concept artist for the 3D feature film "Space Chimps".
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Production Designer
Studio Hamburg
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
September 2006 — January 2007 (5 months)
Visual Development Art and Production Design for 3D animated feature projects ( Alphabet City) (producer: Ronald Kruschak)
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Senior Production Designer/ Art Director
Rothkirch/Cartoon Film (Berlin)
(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Animation industry)
March 2001 — 2006 (5 years )
Leading the visual development and concept Art department for the animation projects produced by Rothkirch/cartoon-film
Production Designer of "Laura's Star" (animated Film). The film won a German Film Awards for Outstanding Children or Youth Film (Deutsche FilmPreis Bester Kinder- und Jugendfilm)in 2005 -
Production Designer/Art Director
TFC trickompany (Hamburg)
(Animation industry)
May 1999 — December 2003 (4 years 8 months)
Production Designer, Visual development artist, Workbook & Storyboard artist for animated feature films and TV series like "Ottifanten", "Werner", "Derrick" or "Nick knatterton" etc...
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designer/key layout /Workbook Artist
A. Film A/S
(Animation industry)
April 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 9 months)
Visual development, Workbook and Key layout artist for "Help! I'm a fish" the animated feature film.
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Visual Development Artist
Warner Bros. Pictures
(Public Company; Animation industry)
May 1996 — July 1996 (3 months)
Visual development artist and production illustrator in preproduction for "The Quest For Camelot " animated feature film.
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Production Designer
S.E.P.P. Brussels
(Animation industry)
April 1988 — March 1990 (2 years )
Production Designer and Visual development artist for all the animated TV series production stages licensed by S.E.P.P.
Toy designer.
Manu Arenas’s Education
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Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles - Ecole supérieure des Arts
Fines Arts
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Manu Arenas’s Websites:
Manu Arenas’s Interests:
Cinematography, Graphic Novels and Poetry
