Bringing Backgrounds to the Foreground: Using Principles of Appeal to Create Environments with Character:

In this art book created for her MFA Animation thesis at Savannah College of Art and Design, Liz Richards explores the creation of environment design for animation using tools commonly applied to character design. By treating environments as characters, a better overall immersion of the audience into the story and richer expericene can be achieved.

This theory is demonstrated by the exploration of three different locations for Richards' original story The Misadventures of Zukini. FIlled wit...