Building
visual worlds.
Art direction, visual development, and production design across animation, major entertainment IP, immersive environments, and authored image-making.
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15 shows + Miscellaneous.
The master Studio Work index is preserved as the portfolio structure: each show is a separate project, with the individual artwork kept inside that project rather than mixed into one gallery.
Mickey Mouse Shorts
The supplied Mickey Mouse Shorts PDF documents Joseph’s art direction across the series, including development and production artwork for individual shorts such as Croissant de Triomphe, Yodelberg, Panda-monium, No Service, O Sole Minnie, Fire Escape, Eau de Minnie, Dancevidaniya, Al Rojo Vivo, Ku'u Lei Melody, One Man Band, Clogged, Roughin' It, Feliz Cumpleanos, and Mumbai Madness.
The source material describes Croissant de Triomphe as the first of 17 shorts Joseph art directed for the first season, and explains his intent to vary the background styling while retaining a cohesive character-driven identity.
From illustration to space.
Immersive entertainment work, including attraction visual development, murals, bas-relief, show-set, cabinetry, and facade artwork.
An authored visual voice.
Personal work expands the same strengths: composition, atmosphere, color, storytelling, and world-building.
Human art direction + emerging tools.
Joseph’s practice is grounded in drawing, painting, design, visual development, and art direction. As creative tools evolve, AI can be integrated where it helps accelerate ideation, iteration, reference exploration, and previsualization—while human authorship, visual judgment, and production intent remain central.
Let’s build
the world.
Art direction · visual development · production design · entertainment IP · immersive projects
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(818) 427-2283 · Sarasota, Florida
Joseph Holt.
Art Director · Visual Development · Production Design
EMMY AWARD-WINNING ART DIRECTOR
Award-winning Art Director and Visual Development Artist with 25+ years of experience shaping the visual identity of animated series, specials, and immersive entertainment. Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Art Direction on Disney’s Mickey Mouse Shorts.
EXPERIENCE
WILDBRAIN STUDIOS
Art Director · 2021–2025
WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING
Art Direction / Visual Development · 2016–2022
DISNEY TELEVISION ANIMATION
Art Director / Visual Development · 2012–2017
NICKELODEON · CARTOON NETWORK · FILM ROMAN · THE ORPHANAGE
Background Design · Visual Development · Production Art · 1998–2012
SELECTED CREDITS
Mickey Mouse Shorts · Camp Snoopy · The Snoopy Show · Big Hero 6: The Series · Tron: Uprising · Sym-Bionic Titan · El Tigre · My Life as a Teenage Robot · The Mighty B! · Mission Hill · Time Squad · The Ricky Gervais Show · Elf, Buddy’s Musical Christmas · The Oblongs
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts — California State University, Fullerton · 1995