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COMPOSE SCENES USING SHAPES

Visual development artist Léa Pinto shares advice for pushing design fundamentals in environment artwork

Artist PROFILE

Léa Pinto

LOCATION: France

Léa is a freelance visual development artist based in Normandy, working in both video games and animation. She’s currently working on a movie with Sony Pictures Animation and has been a part of Netflix features such as the Jibaro episode of Love, Death + Robots. https://bit.ly/48k1GMD

This painting was inspired by one of my recent trips to Japan.

I’ve been trying to travel more, exploring new countries and cultures to feed my paintings with new experiences.

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