Julia Lundman grew up on military bases all over the United States, Germany and West Point as a military kid. She studied art history and fine art at Elmhurst University in Elmhurst, Illinois, and later graduated from the American Academy of Art in downtown Chicago with degrees in Painting and Illustration. Lundman was an active member of the Palette and Chisel Art League for many years while a traditional background painter at Calabash Animation.
At Calabash, she designed and painted backgrounds for many General Mills cereal commercials like Lucky Charms and Trix, composed storyboard color comps, and illustrated General Mills cereal boxes. She designed on two independent short films, "Heads Will Roll" (Dir. Wayne Brejcha) and art direction on "Stubble Trubble" (Dir. Joe Merideth), nominated for an Academy Award in 2000 in the Animated Shorts category.
After moving to San Francisco, she illustrated at The Learning Company, and later designed and Art Directed at casual game companies Pogo/Electronic Arts and Zynga. At Disney Interactive, she Art Directed mobile game "Kitchen Scramble", went on to work on product illustration for Lego. Later, Lundman Art Directed three seasons of the animated tv series, “Disney Junior's Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets", (now on Disney Plus) created and produced at Ghostbot. She also illustrated a Little Golden Book for the Palace Pets and Nickelodeon.
Lundman is now focusing entirely on painting, private commissions, and publishing.
