Artists Profiles
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DopePope
DopePope, is a Brooklyn based artist specializing in bizarre creature and character design. An illustrator since childhood, he’s swerved his talents into the world of digital 3D sculpting, concept art, and toy design. He has lent his skills to help create fantastic creatures for Legendary’s Monsterverse, as well as Marvel’s Antman 3, and FX's American Horror Story. His absolute love for giant monsters, and all things sci-fi and horror keeps him inspired and eager to create.
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Derek Stenning BIo
Trained as a classical animator, Derek has been active as a commercial artist for over 25 years. After a short stint in animation, he jumped over to the game development field, where he has been working as a concept artist ever since. Over the years he has worked on large projects for companies like Nintendo, Microsoft and Marvel Entertainment, to name a few. As a freelance illustrator his work has been featured in book and magazine publishing, phone/tablet apps, and more recently, a board game project with French publisher Matagot. All of that aside, he is mostly know for his personal project "The EK Series”, an ever growing series of paintings that display weathered cosmonauts inhabiting a hazy void located somewhere between hope and despair. This work has been showcased in many international publications and was translated into a successful line of model kits by the now defunct Industria Mechanika. His two art books, Born In Concrete: The EK Series, and EK2 - The Lost Years are available from Design Studio Press.
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Carol Bauman
A graduate of New York University's TSOA Film Department, Carol has worked as a model and creature maker on over forty feature films and commercials including Arachnophobia, Men in Black, Starship Troopers, Galaxy Quest, Transformers III and Episodes I, II and III of the Star Wars Saga. She was the Bunny "Fluffer" for many of the Energizer commercials and co-supervised the design and creation of the model centerpiece "The Disneyland of Walt's Imagination" for The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco's Presidio. She recently retired from her position at TraumaFX in Petaluma where she worked prototyping and producing award winning medical simulators for trauma training.
