Hi #portfolioday! I’m Cristina & a background designer in TV animation! Past: BG design lead on We Baby Bears @ Cartoon Network, freelance for Bat Family @ Warner Bros, & previs @ Netflix. Looking for full-time/freelance work in TV animation 🦇 🖼️: www.cristinazuniga.com 📧: [email protected]

I’ve curated a starter pack to make it easier to find artists working in animation on Bluesky! (If you qualify but aren’t on this list let me know, I will fill it up until it hits the 150 limit!) go.bsky.app/KDYTiwF

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Hey everyone #PortfolioDay! I’m available for work in background design in tv animation, open to full-time or freelance. Thank for looking!

Some of my favorite backgrounds I designed for the episode “Three Bears and a Dippy” for We Baby Bears! 🌟 I got the chance to design my dream bathroom made of crystal and star-themed kid’s room as well~💎 🛀 #WeBabyBears #backgrounddesign #animation

Hey everyone #PortfolioDay! I’m available for work in background design in tv animation, open to full-time or freelance. Thank for looking!

IM SO EXCITED FOR THE REST OF THIS TO BE SHOWN it was very fun to board 💜 everyone please keep an eye on Skobeloff Forest cos we got a lot cooking :3

Some backgrounds I designed for the episode “Welcome to Atlantis” for @webabybears ! 🐻 Great episode highlighting the bears experiencing the perils of tech billionaires wreaking havoc on the ocean, capitalism, and labor organizing 🌊 📦 #WeBabyBears #backgrounddesign #animation

Some backgrounds I did for the episode “Bermuda Bears” for We Baby Bears! 🐻 I had the pleasure to design this cute cheesy gift shop for the Bermuda Triangle, it was a lot of fun figuring out how many themed novelty items I can put in there 🎣 #WeBabyBears #animation #backgrounddesign

Some backgrounds I did for the episode “Sunken Sub!” for We Baby Bears! Researching for underwater caves took me down a rabbit hole on spelunking/diving videos 🏝️ #WeBabyBears #animation #backgrounddesign

Some backgrounds I did for the episode “Sunken Sub!” for We Baby Bears! Researching for underwater caves took me down a rabbit hole on spelunking/diving videos 🏝️ #WeBabyBears #animation #backgrounddesign

For all the David Lynch fans out there, may I present: Eraserhead Tamagotchi. gwenckatz.itch.io/eraserhead-t...

Totally slipped my mind that these aired a while back! Here are background designs I did for We Baby Bears on the episodes “The Big Bloom” & “The Parade!”🎸 💥 #WeBabyBears #CartoonNetwork #webabybears_cartoonnetwork #cns #animation #backgrounddesign #cn #punk #cns #animation #backgrounddesign

Here’s another few from the episode “Return to the Sea” from We Baby Bears! Web page based from a certain company 🤫 📦

Here’s a few backgrounds I did for the episode “Shark!” for We Baby Bears! What I love about this story arc is its themes of ✨ Capitalism ✨ & its effect on the environment. I had the pleasure of working on the Atlantis logo based off a certain company. 📦 #WeBabyBears #animation #backgrounddesign

Here’s a few backgrounds I did for the episode “Shark!” for We Baby Bears! What I love about this story arc is its themes of ✨ Capitalism ✨ & its effect on the environment. I had the pleasure of working on the Atlantis logo based off a certain company. 📦 #WeBabyBears #animation #backgrounddesign

Totally slipped my mind that these aired a while back! Here are background designs I did for We Baby Bears on the episodes “The Big Bloom” & “The Parade!”🎸 💥 #WeBabyBears #CartoonNetwork #webabybears_cartoonnetwork #cns #animation #backgrounddesign #cn #punk #cns #animation #backgrounddesign

Heya everybirdy! I’m Cristina, a Background Designer/Lead for TV animation. I have about 4 years experience at CN & Netflix. I’m available for full-time/freelance (union preferred) work in TV Animation! 🦇 *please email for NDA samples! 📎 cristinazuniga.com ✉️ [email protected]

3 years ago today, ‘We Baby Bears’ premiered on Cartoon Network.

Had some fun drawing an Earthship house while listening to the soundtrack from Hylics 2 😎 🌎 #backgrounddesign #animation #art

Had some fun drawing an Earthship house while listening to the soundtrack from Hylics 2 😎 🌎 #backgrounddesign #animation #art

My first purple color shift film roll came out bonkers

Hi #portfolioday! I’m Cristina & a background designer in TV animation! Past: BG design lead on We Baby Bears @ Cartoon Network, freelance for Bat Family @ Warner Bros, & previs @ Netflix. Looking for full-time/freelance work in TV animation 🦇 🖼️: www.cristinazuniga.com 📧: [email protected]

We need to highlight Black people who have suffered loss during these LA fires. Please please share this "Displaced Black Families" document and donate if you can!!!!! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Many animation folks have been affected by the LA fires, here is a current list of gofundmes to help those that have lost so much. Please consider donating or sharing to help our union kin. If you know animation folks not on the list, let me know so they can be added ❤️ airtable.com/appugwkqKAVG...

One of my former directors, Anthony Chun, a delightful human who has directed on many cartoons including Rick and Morty and King of the Hill, sadly lost his home in the fires. If you can spare anything, please help him and his family with two daughters out of a terrible situation. gofund.me/bd8fb758

Like everyone else in Los Angeles I know and love many people who lost everything yesterday. I set up this gofundme for my friends Shannon & Johnny, two top tier sweeties who lost their house and everything they own. Shannon is a fellow artist and Johnny is a carpenter. Any amount helps, thank you ❤️

Here is an ongoing list of LA restaurants that are offering shelter, food, and support to first responders and evacuees: bit.ly/LAaid

Absolutely numb n devastated by what has happened to so many folks here in LA. Many of my friends and colleagues have lost their homes and livelihoods, during what was already a tumultuous time for many of them. But despite the loss and devastation, we will support one another and rise again. ---

A more recent (digital) painting. #painting #clippaint

An interior of a foyer for a personal project, really enjoyed exploring the use of black shadows and very very subtle newsprint textures! 🦇 #backgrounddesign #animation #art

We Baby Bears nostalgia throwback ❤️✨🐻🐼🐻‍❄️✨❤️

Sleepy sketchbook doodle.

An interior of a foyer for a personal project, really enjoyed exploring the use of black shadows and very very subtle newsprint textures! 🦇 #backgrounddesign #animation #art

Woke up this morning and saw all these new followers overnight!! Thank you 😳

This is our third Animation Industry Starter Pack in three weeks! Follow all three, and you'll be following 447 animation artists, industry professionals and media accounts with no repeats. go.bsky.app/JC8TpyE

Some early background design work I did on the “Bears and the Beanstalk” episode for We Baby Bears! This was back before the tonal look was integrated fully into the art style and was more line-based. Very egg-themed.🍳 🐼 🐻‍❄️ 🐻 #backgrounddesign #animation #art #cartoonnetwork #webabybears

Some early background design work I did on the “Bears and the Beanstalk” episode for We Baby Bears! This was back before the tonal look was integrated fully into the art style and was more line-based. Very egg-themed.🍳 🐼 🐻‍❄️ 🐻 #backgrounddesign #animation #art #cartoonnetwork #webabybears

QRP with your black and white art if you're feeling so inclined. 🎨

I think I’ll start reposting work I’ve done for We Baby Bears here soon 🤔

More samples:

Another few!

Redid another old background of mine, fun little greenhouse 🍃 💀 🕯️ #backgrounddesign #animation #art

QRP with your black and white art if you're feeling so inclined. 🎨

Redid another old background of mine, fun little greenhouse 🍃 💀 🕯️ #backgrounddesign #animation #art

Here’s a couple of pieces I’ve done for personal projects. Trying to get myself back into the swing of things to find work after dealing with burnout for the past year

The Hunt

❗Looking for 2D Animators, FX Animators, and BG Artists❗ Availability: December and January! Style: Very 2000s cartoons, TMNT, action heavy. PAID, Remote, any country. Respond here with your portfolios! And please share (Idk how this new app works) :D THANKS, TACK! No DMs