background art
Behind the action
Background art is the scenery, environments, and settings painted or rendered behind characters and action in animation, comics, video games, and film.
Distinguished from foreground elements that move or interact, background art establishes mood, location, and atmosphere: The background art in that Studio Ghibli film is breathtaking.
Background artists specialize in creating these static or subtly animated environments.
- sceneryVisible natural surroundings
- backdropRear stage scenery
- landscapeVisible features of terrain
- matte paintingPainted image replacing scenery
- establishing shotOpening scene showing location
painted backdrop · environment · setting · set design · wallpaper · illustration · Studio Ghibli · hand painted · panorama · vista · horizon · atmosphere · visual storytelling · layers · depth · composition · digital painting · concept art
- comic artcomic, comics, comic book, cartoon, manga
- animation artcels, backgrounds, concept art, storyboards, character design
- Animation Termscel animation, cels, digital animation, inking, layering
- digital graphicspixel, vector, pixel art, bitmap, raster
- set designset construction, set design, set dressing, set decoration, set pieces
- cel animationcel, overlay, underlay, xerography, key frame
background, back, ground, backs, grounds, backed, backing, grounded, grounding