Hi, I am Aurora Jimenez, author and artist.
Since childhood I have always loved comics, cartoon strips and graphic novels, and creating insane amounts of characters and their intricate worlds. Spending my days and nights drawing, my childhood passion turned into a career working in Animation.
I am an experienced production designer, art director, and character designer with over 20 years of experience in the animation, film and video game industries. I have worked on visual development and design for films such as "Vivo", Gendy Tartakovsky's "Hotel Transylvania 2 & 3", "The Tale of Despereaux", “The Emoji movie”, "The Smurfs: The Lost Village", "The Bad Guys" and “Trolls band together” at major Hollywood studios like DreamWorks, Sony, and Electronic Arts. I have also served as the production designer for the animated feature film "El Guerrero Sin Nombre" Animaciones Imposibles/Tornasol films, released in 2005.
For my work on ‘VIVO’ I received a Concept Art Association Award in 2023 : Excellence in Animation Feature Environment concept art.
For more information about My professional animation Studio work, please visit: aurorafilmdesign.com
Publications:
‘ARTISTA’ volume 1_2019
‘A-MUSE-ME’ volume 1_ 2019
‘Menu Degustacion’_ 2019
Currently working on my first graphic novel and developing my first animation short film; LATENTE. Co-directed with Carlos Zaragoza.
Originally from Spain, I write in Spanish, English & sometimes in Spanglish because I split my time between two cities: Los Angeles and Madrid.