Esther Morales

Esther Morales

Experience:


Character designer

TV Series: Common Side Effects S2

Green Street Pictures | Adult Swim

Sep 2025 – Present


Character designer and visual development artist

Shortfilm (Unannounced)

Hampa Studio

Aug 2025


Character designer

TV Series (Unannounced)

Epipheo

Dec 2024 – May 2025


Character designer and posing artist

Feature film: Light of the world

Epipheo | Pencilish Animation Studios

Mar 2023 – Jun 2024


Character designer and visual development artist

TV Series (Unannounced)

Cartoon Network Studios

Sep 2022 – Oct 2022


Character designer

Feature film: Julián

Cartoon Saloon

Aug 2022


Character design and prop supervisor

TV Series: Silly Sundays

Cartoon Saloon | WarnerMedia

Sep 2021 – Aug 2022


Character designer

Feature film (Unannounced)

Netflix Animation

Sep 2021 – Oct 2021


Senior lead character designer and senior lead posing artist

Feature film: My Father’s Dragon

Cartoon Saloon | Netflix

Mar 2019 – Aug 2021


Character designer

Shortfilm: Christmas comes to Moominvalley

Gigglebug

May 2021 – Jun 2021


Character design and prop supervisor

TV Series: Dorg Van Dango

Cartoon Saloon | WildBrain | Nickelodeon

Mar 2018 – Nov 2019


Character designer

Feature film (Unannounced)

Ánima México

Sep 2018 | Aug 2019 – Nov 2019


Character designer

Short film: Jukumari

3Dados Media

May 2019 – Jun 2019


Character designer

TV Series: Bug Diaries

Lighthouse Studios | Amazon Prime Video

Jul 2017 – Mar 2018


Character designer

TV Series: Idéfix et les Irréductibles

Les Éditions Albert René | France TV

Jun 2016 – Dec 2016




Imparting courses / masterclasses:

Character design teacher

  • Gobelins, l'école de l'image (Paris, France)
  • Mar 2018 | Feb 2019 | Nov 2019 | Nov 2020 | Nov 2021 | Nov 2022 | Nov 2023 | Nov 2024 | Nov 2025

Character design teacher

  • Warrior Art Camp (Los Angeles, USA)
  • Mar 2023 – Apr 2023 | Apr 2024 – May 2024 | Feb – Mar 2025 | Aug – Sep 2025


Character design teacher

  • La Galería Roja (Sevilla, Spain)
  • Jan 2023 | Sep 2023 | Jun 2024 | Jan – Feb 2025

  • Character design teacher
  • The Animation Workshop (Viborg, Denmark)
  • Feb 2020 | Feb 2021


Digital art and illustration teacher

Trazos (Madrid, Spain)

Dec 2013 – Jul 2017



Character design masterclasses / panels:


- Centro Pixels (Bilbao, Spain). Feb 2021 | Jan 2022 | Jan 2023 | Dec 2023 | Mar 2025

- ElJap (Salamanca, Spain). Dec 2024 – Jan 2025

- LCI (Barcelona, Spain). Mar 2023 | Mar 2024

- Lightbox Expo (Los Angeles, US). Oct 2023

- Ochío Play Festival (Jaén, Spain). Feb 2023

- U-tad University (Madrid, Spain). Jun 2020 | Jun 2021 | Feb 2023

- GUIKEN School (Madrid, Spain). Apr & Jul 2021 & 2022. Jan 2023

- Taipei International conference on Animation and New Media. National Taiwan University of Arts. (Taipei, Taiwan). Dec 2022

- Avans University (Breda, The Netherlands). Nov 2022

- NonStop VisDev Seminar (Barcelona, Spain). Oct 2022

- UCM University (Madrid, Spain). Oct 2022

- IDEA Academy (Rome, Italy). May 2022

- Trazos School (Madrid, Spain). Mar 2022

- ANIMUM (Málaga, Spain). Feb 2022

- University College Cork (Cork, Ireland). Apr 2021

- Middlesex University (London, UK). Dec 2020

- Animayo Festival (Gran Canaria, Spain). Apr 2020

- Kilkenny Animated Festival (Kilkenny, Ireland). Feb 2018



Exhibitions and articles:


- "Art for LA". Group exhibition at Gallery Nucleus (Los Angeles, US). Jan – Mar 2025.

- "Nucleus 20th anniversary". Group exhibition at Gallery Nucleus (Los Angeles, US). Nov – Dec 2024.

- "The Artist's Kami". Solo exhitibion at Almost Perfect (Tokyo, Japan). Oct 2024.

- "Night Critters". Duo exhibition with Alarico Ciaramelli at Gallery Nucleus (Los Angeles, US). Aug – Sept 2024.

- "Your sketchbook is your playground". Article for Character Design Quarterly #27. 2023.

- "Power in Numbers 7". Group exhibition at Nucleus Portland (Portland, US). Oct 2022.

- "Ferus". Solo exhibition at Lemon y Coco (Cáceres, Spain). 2015.







Awards

  • It’s Nice That
  • AIGA
  • Fonts In Use
  • The Dieline

Contact

email@domain.com

000-000-000


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Education:

Character design Master’s degree

U-tad University (Madrid, Spain). 2015 – 2016


2D animation course

Esdip (Madrid, Spain). 2013 – 2014


Character design workshop imparted by Borja Montoro

Esdip (Madrid, Spain). 2013 – 2014


Fine Arts degree (Average final grade: 9.2/10)

University of Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain). 2008 – 2013


Traditional illustration course

Esdip (Madrid, Spain). 2010










Awards

  • It’s Nice That
  • AIGA
  • Fonts In Use
  • The Dieline

Contact

email@domain.com

000-000-000


— Instagram

— Twitter

— Facebook

© Esther Morales | esthermoralesart@gmail.com