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    ARTIST PORTFOLIO BRITTANY MYERS

    Mar 19, 2021 5 minutes

    Los Angeles, 2018. Brittany Myers is starting work at Netflix Animation. Netflix hasn’t publicly announced its new animation division, so Brittany joins what is for now a small team on Sunset Boulevard. She’ll be designing characters for a film called Over the Moon, directed by Brittany’s favourite artist growing up, the artist who made her want to be a character designer in first place: illustrator and animator Glen Keane.

    Over the Moon has a script – it’s about a teenage girl who builds a rocket ship to meet the mythical goddess who lives on the moon – but almost no artwork. This is where Brittany comes in.

    Some directors provide their character designers with precise instructions, right down to the style of haircut and particular items of clothing, with reference pictures of people the character should resemble. Sometimes the instructions are less precise, more abstract.

    Brittany previously worked on a project where she was told

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