Hugo Baurens

Illustrator/Character Designer/Storyboard

hugo.baurens@gmail.com

EXPERIENCE

Bellolandia Studio

Character Layout Posing

Started from February 3rd, 2025 / Remote

La Station Animation

Character Design

October 21rst to December 13th, 2024 / Paris (France)

Akami

Character Design

January 18th to June 14th 2024 / Paris (France)

Feral Child

Character Design & Layout Posing

August 26th to September 04th 2023 / Remote

Framestore

Concept Artist

June 23rd to June 30th 2023 / Remote

TeamTO

Chara Design and Storybeats for internal projects

April 06th to May 18th 2023 / Paris (France)

Feral Child

Illustrations for a Video Game

March 23rd to April 05th 2023 / Remote

Jungler

Character Designer on a Commercial

Feb 20th to March 3rd 2023 / Paris (France)

Doberman Pictures

Vis Dev Artist on a Dreamworks TV show

May 2022-November 2022 / Vancouver (Canada)

Giant Ant

Character Designer and Storyboard for feature film Tangles directed by Leah Nelson.

March 2022-April 2022 / Vancouver (Canada)

CARTOON NETWORK STUDIO

Freelance Visual Development Artist

March 2021 / Remote

Giant Ant

Visual Development, Character Design, Backgrounds, Storyboard

January 2020-November 2021 / Vancouver (Canada)

Giant Ant

Illustration Intern

June 2019 - December 2019 / Vancouver (Canada)

TAT Productions

Visual Development Intern for the feature film TERRA WILLY (2019)

January 2017 - February 2017 / Toulouse (France)

EDITORIAL WORK

La Brigade des Pâtissiers (V02)

-Nathan Jeunesse

Book Cover, 6 full page illustrations, 1 spot illustration

Coming of Age story written by Elizabeth Barféty in collaboration with Silamaka Soukouna,

published in March 2025

La Brigade des Pâtissiers (V01)

-Nathan Jeunesse

Book Cover, 6 full page illustrations, 1 spot illustration

Coming of Age story written by Elizabeth Barféty in collaboration with Silamaka Soukouna,

published in March 2025

Holly à l’Ecole d’Equidragon (V03)

-Rageot

Book Cover, 15 various sizes illustrations, 5 full page Illustrations

Fantasy story written by Catherine Kalengula, published in January 2025

Léon, 1916

-Poulpe Fictions

Book Cover, 30 various sizes illustrations, 5 full page Illustrations

Historical story written by Tristan Pichard, published in May 2024

Holly à l’Ecole d’Equidragon (V02)

-Rageot

Book Cover, 15 various sizes illustrations, 5 full page Illustrations

Fantasy story written by Catherine Kalengula, published in May 2024

Holly à l’Ecole d’Equidragon (V01)

-Rageot

Book Cover, 15 various sizes illustrations, 5 full page Illustrations

Fantasy story written by Catherine Kalengula, published in May 2024

Terreur sur le Lac

-BAYARD JEUNESSE

Illustration Cover

Thriller story written by Sandrine Beau, published in October 2023

“Un Royaume à Sauver”

-J’aimeLireMAX n296

Cover, 28 various sizes illustrations, 1 double page, 8 Chapter Thumbnails

Heroic Fantasy story written by Sylvain Zorzin, published in August 2023

“L’Héritage d’Almar”

-JeBouquine n467

3 various sizes illustrations, and 1 full intro page illustration

Teen story written by Antoine Lefranc published in January 2023

Mine (French edition)

-BAYARD JEUNESSE

Illustration Cover

Spooky story written by Delilah S. Dawson, published in October 2022

“Marcel sauve Noël”

-J’aimeLireMAX n276

Cover, 24 various sizes illustrations, 1 double page, 8 Chapter Thumbnails

Christmas story written by Luc Blanvillain, published in December 2021

The Dollhouse Murders (French edition)

-BAYARD JEUNESSE

Illustration Cover

Spooky story written by Betty Ren Wright, published in 2021

“#ClasheMoiSiTuPeux”

-JeBouquine n443

3 various sizes illustrations, and 1 full intro page illustration

Teen story written by Mabrouck Rachedi, published in January 2021

“Un Horrible Joyeux Noël”

-J’aimeLireMAX n264

Cover, 24 various sizes illustrations, 1 double page, 8 Chapter Thumbnails

Christmas story written by Karine Dupont-Belrhali, published in December 2020

EDUCATION

Ecole Emile Cohl

Master’s Degree of Animation Filmmaker

Director of the animated short movie “The Hunt”

Visual Development, Storyboard, Backgrounds, Traditionnal Cel Animation

September 2017-June 2019 / France (Lyon)

Ecole Emile Cohl

Bachelor of Illustration

Fine art studies, classical drawing and paintings, sculpture

September 2014-June 2017 / France (Lyon)

SKILLS

Bilingual

Fluent in English (CEFR Level C1)

Native French

Animation

Frame by frame Character Animation

Basic knowledge of Adobe Animate and Tv Paint

Storyboard

Thumbnails to Storyboard, to editing Animatics

Photoshop, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, Adobe After Effect