Boris Andreev
Production Designer & Senior Art Director — Animation
• Unicorn Academy • The Dragon Prince • Watership Down • Thomas and Friends •
Selected projects
Design Leadership & Concept Art
THE DRAGON PRINCE
Netflix Series – ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT DESIGN
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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Daytime Emmy®-winning fantasy
series (2020)
BILLY THAMES
Unreleased animation feature – 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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HE-MAN & THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
Netflix Series – ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT DESIGN
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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THE LEGEND OF TEMBO
Unreleased animated feature, Tradition Studios — VISUAL DEVELOPMENT ARTIST
The Legend of Tembo was created by Disney veterans Aaron Blaise and Chuck Williams as the first project of Tradition Studios, a new feature animation facility launched with Digital Domain in Florida. In 2011–2012 I developed its story beats, atmospheric staging and location designs.
This is an example of a prefinal location development sheet painted for Layout, Modeling, Foliage and Surfacing departments as a guideline.
Location development
WATERSHIP DOWN
High Profile mini-series (BBC / Netflix) – CONCEPT DESIGN & ART DIRECTION
Adaptation of Richard Adams' famous classic.
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.
Daytime Emmy®-winning adaptation
of Richard Adams' classic (2019)
UNICORN ACADEMY
TV Series (Spin Master Entertainment/Netflix) — PRODUCTION DESIGN
Spin Master’s biggest production to date.
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.
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.
Case Studies - Worldbuilding
The process behind the work above. Each project here is a slice of a larger body of work: research, lots of sketching, Blender proxies, concept paintings, design sheets, color scripts, style guides and more.
An animated fantasy series set in Xadia, where humans are at war with elves and dragons. Two princes and an elf assassin try to return a stolen baby dragon to his mother.
A little dog named Billy braves a life full of dramatic adventures without losing his enthusiasm or his sense of humor
FANTASTICAL WORLD
Unicorn Academy
An animated fantasy series set at a magical school on Unicorn Island, where students bond with their unicorns. When a dark force threatens the island, a new student and her schoolmates step up to protect it.
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