Antonella

Disney

  • Disney
  • Illustrator
  • Background designer
  • Visual Development

Creating layouts, painted backgrounds, and character work for Rise Up, Sing Out, an animated musical series celebrating race, culture, community, and difference.

A painted suburban neighborhood scene from Disney’s Rise Up, Sing Out.

At Bluna.tv I worked from storyboards and animatics, translating each sequence into layouts and painting backgrounds that supported the composition, storytelling, and emotional tone.

A wide progression from storyboard panels to a painted neighborhood background.
A colorful painted neighborhood background with trees and houses.
A grayscale storyboard sequence showing characters moving through a neighborhood.
Three visual-development boards combining layouts, character sketches, and lighting studies.

I contributed to selected character moments, helping bring expression and personality to key poses that animators used as reference.

Character expression and pose drawings arranged as an animation reference sheet.
A warm painted children’s bedroom background.
A background layout sheet showing the bedroom from several angles.
A horizontal visual-development sequence showing a green door opening in stages.
A colorful painted living room with a purple sofa and warm orange walls.
A child imagined as a bright yellow rocket rising through blue clouds.
A yellow rocket launching through a painted countryside scene.
A painted countryside background with green fields and trees.
A panoramic sequence of a yellow rocket flying across a purple sky.
A blue river winding through an abstract painted landscape.
A panoramic lineup of children and families gathered in a sunny park.

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