Boris Andreev
Production Designer & Senior Art Director — Animation
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Creative Work
Design Leadership
UNICORN ACADEMY
TV Series (Spin Master Entertainment/Netflix) — PRODUCTION DESIGN
Spin Master's largest IP launch – Netflix global Top 10 at debut.
Production Designer on Season 1, building the show's world from scratch. Then joined Spin Master, the IP owner, as Senior Art Director for Seasons 2–3, covering production design and supervising the vendor studio to keep the look consistent as the series expanded.
"The magical world is exquisitely imagined." — Common Sense Media
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THOMAS AND FRIENDS
TV Series (Mattel) - ART DIRECTION
First Art Director on the show's move from its original model-based production to a full-CG pipeline. Kept the brand's established look while using CG to add the detail and visual range the storytelling needed, then refined the assets and raised the visual quality across the following seasons of episodes and specials.
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MIA AND CODIE
Preschool TV Series (TVO Kids, Knowledge Network, TFO) – PRODUCTION DESIGN / ART DIRECTION
Starting from the project's earliest development, I was responsible for the show's entire look. Designed and developed the final look of the main characters and created the series' central world, Mia's city-block neighborhood, exterior and interior. Set the visual style in Season 1 and carried it through production into Season 2.
WATERSHIP DOWN
High Profile mini-series (BBC / Netflix) – CONCEPT DESIGN & EARLY ART DIRECTION
Daytime Emmy®-winning adaptation of Richard Adams' classic (2019).
Created the pitch concepts that helped win the production in a competitive bid. Then helped art direct early development, coordinating an international art team across the UK, Ireland and India.
BILLY THAMES
Feature Animation – PRODUCTION DESIGN / CHARACTER DESIGN
Billy Thames was a feature animation for After Studios (UK, India), canceled in 2019 during development stage. As Production Designer I defined the look of its world and personally designed all of its main characters. The art below shows some of the work produced.
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Creative Work
Concept & Visual Development
THE DRAGON PRINCE
Netflix Series – ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT DESIGN
Daytime Emmy®-winning fantasy series (2020).
Contributed to the production design of Season 1 by developing several key locations: defining each one's role in the story, its scale and its layout, so the places worked for staging as well as looking right. Also painted story-beat illustrations for pivotal moments.
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HE-MAN & THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
Netflix’s CG reboot of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, produced by Mattel Television, brought Eternia to a new generation of viewers. For Season 1, I created the concept for the entire Eternia City, a massive location where each neighborhood has its own architecture and cultural flavor. They range from the palace and a hi-tech highland quarter to valley farms, a trade village and cliff-top esoteric alien spheres.
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RIVERDANCE
Animated feature, Netflix – SR. VISUAL DEVELOPMENT ARTIST
Riverdance: The Animated Adventure, a collaboration of Cinesite Studios and the famous Riverdance Show (Dublin).
As Senior Visual Development Artist I created environment concepts and story-moment illustrations, designed foliage and props, and researched character designs for the deer characters, including the Megaloceros giganteus.
THE LEGEND OF TEMBO
Animated feature, Tradition Studios — VISUAL DEVELOPMENT ARTIST
The Legend of Tembo was an amazing story I had a pleasure of working on in 2011-2012. The story was created by Disney veterans Aaron Blaise and Chuck Williams as their first project at the brand new feature animation facility launched together with Digital Domain in Florida — Tradition Studios.
This is an example of a prefinal location development sheet painted for Layout, Modeling, Foliage and Surfacing departments as a guideline.
Location development
Environment and Animation test
Case Studies
These selected case studies offer a glimpse into my routine and methodology for building worlds and conceptualizing visual storytelling.
Each one only scratches the surface of what is usually a large body of work: thorough research, lots of sketching, Blender proxies, concept paintings, design sheets, color scripts, style guides and more.
Three decades in art.
20+ years building worlds for animation.
About boris
Boris Andreev is a Production Designer and Senior Art Director working across feature and episodic animation. His practice connects story, architecture, color, and atmosphere into visual systems that creative teams can build from. Alongside studio production, he develops original animated properties and advises studios and artists on world-building and modern production workflows.
Selected Credits: The Legend of Tembo, Riverdance: The Animated Adventure, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Unicorn Academy, The Dragon Prince, Watership Down, Thomas & Friends, and more.
Clients: BBC · Netflix · Hasbro · Spin Master · Mattel · Marvel
Production Leadership: Canada · USA · UK · Ireland · India