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About the Artist
Floro Dery
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Hi, I'm Webi! I would like to say something about Floro Dery. Below you can see an illustration of the artist himself working in his studio busting his butt for big animation & film studios for peanuts.
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Aside from doing paintings in his spare time, Floro Dery works as a design supervisor, character and layout designer, storyboard artist, and screen director in many animation studios in Los Angeles. Two of his numerous older works were The Pirates of Dark Water and Wildfire, where he worked on the storyboard, conceptual and production designs of the characters and background layouts. He was the original concept designer of the characters, background layouts, and practically almost all the key designs of The Transformers: The Movie, and the toys associated with it. In other words, he is the visual creator of the movie. Also he designed most of the characters and background layouts of the first and second season of the Transformers cartoon series. That is, he set the style and look of the Transformers cartoon series, and created the humanoid models and background layouts that would become the visual guidelines both for the Transformers comic books and animated cartoons. He worked as a storyboard artist, background layout and character designer in many theatrical and direct to video features, and television series, some of which are The King and I, Revelation, The Trumpet of the Swan, The Swan Princess, Scarecrow, The Little Mermaid, The Halloween Tree, Jataka Tales, Alladin, Bonkers, Goof Troop, Fatherhood, Land Before Time and Spider-Man. He was also an illustrator who illustrated the syndicated Sunday Spider-Man in the newspapers from 1982 to 1992. Presently, he is involved in the development, design, and storyboard of theatrical and video animation features, and television series.
Floro studied fine arts as a scholar, but quit after one year because he was bored. Instead, he pursued courses in physics, philosophy, and religion. Eventually, he finished four degrees in mathematics, including a Ph.D. He was a mathematics professor of undergraduate and graduate studies in some of the universities in the Philippines. He authored two books on Vector Analysis, and Differential and Integral Calculus for engineering students. He was also associate professor and course director at the Philippine Military Academy.
Many of Floro's realistic and impressionistic paintings reflect his experiences during his childhood, and they are done in dynamic brush strokes. Generally, he uses the Filipino workers as his subjects and gives philosophical meanings to their lifestyles and works.
Floro currently lives in Manila, Philippines.
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