Santiago Montiel

Concept artist

France

I'm a concept artist, and what I love most is creating and discovering new worlds. More than designing a single set or location, I think about the whole world a story lives in: its style, its places and how they belong together.

With LAIKA I worked in the Production Design team and the Visual Development department on Wildwood (2026), the short ParaNorman: The Thrifting (2025) and Missing Link (2019). Missing Link and The Thrifting each earned an Annie Award nomination for production design, shared with the teams I worked with.

Before that I was crafting distinct visual languages for studios around the world: background direction on Ankama's Wakfu and early designs for Dofus in France; background art direction on Production I.G's Giovanni's Island, where I set the background style of the whole film; key backgrounds for Space Dandy; and concept art for Star Wars: Visions, Shinichiro Watanabe's music video for Flying Lotus, and games such as Fortnite and Supercell titles with Ocellus.

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Education

National School of Fine Arts "Prilidiano Pueyrredón", Buenos Aires

Software

Photoshop

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