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Amazing! This Floro Dery is

If you haven’t heard of Floro Dery, then here’s your chance to know him. He’s the man behind the original Transformers, both in movie and cartoons. And he is a big time Pinoy baby, as in with 100% Filipino blood. He worked as the design supervisor and the character designer at Marvel Studios. He also designed all the human characters in the movie and series. And that includes all the incidental robot and human designs in the series.

Floro Dery, an extraordinary artist from the Philippines, is a modern Renaissance Man. Aside from being a painter, he is also a comics illustrator who illustrated the syndicated Sunday ‘Spider-Man’ from 1982 to 1992. He is also a designer. Two of his older fantasy designs, which were notably exceptional, were ‘The Pirates of Dark Water’ and ‘Wildfire’. He was also the original concept designer of ‘The Transformers, the Movie’ and the toys associated with it.

To read more about Floro Dery, click here. And to read the interview by a certain ZMFTS with Mr. Dery, click here. And since Transformers’ original creator is a pinoy, somebody from hellacious created posted this:

If you think I am talking about a thing of the past since Iron Man is the latest. Well, please excuse me. It just so happen that I bumped into this two amazing pictures:

Got it from geckocraft’s Flicker account. The owner of the account is a Pinoy, and he has a collection of wonderful photos, and that makes him astig na photographer. Thanks man!