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J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 2 2 | P E R S P E C T I V E 1 3 F R A N K F O R T E is an accomplished designer, storyboard artist and comic book artist. Frank's film and T credits include She-Hulk, Big Door Prize, Lovecraft Country, Fantasy Island, Solar Opposites, Dreamork's 3Below, Bob's Burgers, Insidious 4, Lego: Guardians of the Galaxy, Despicable Me 2, Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out, The Super Hero Squad Show, Marvel Heroes 4D, and Lego Hero Factory. Frank's comic book credits include: Heavy Metal Magazine, Bob's Burgers, Warlash, DTOX, Zombie Terrors and Chicken Soup for Satan among others. C O N T R I B U T O R S D A N I E L N O V O T N Y had a unique start on life. e was born into a caravan of traveling street performers touring Europe, Scandinavia and North frica. This communal upbringing influenced his life with experimentation and culture. fter settling in the nited States, his family lived in a bus, traveling crosscountry to California. Long story short, in the s, they settled in Echo Park and called Los ngeles home. Daniel's first experience in the film industry was painting grati murals for his father, Production Designer Michael Novotny. Daniel continued this path working as a visual effects model maker and Set Designer on music videos, commercials, and features like Con Air and Mighty Joe Young. s a Production Designer, Daniel likes telling a story without words and treats each frame like a painting. e has designed a diverse range of proects such as Outer Banks in the Caribbean, Gotham in New ork City, and Dominion in South frica. Designing his recent proect, Gaslit, Daniel focused on the world of conservative Republicans in ashington, DC in the s. hen he's not working, Daniel enoys time with his family at home in the Santa Monica Mountains. F R A N C E S C A D I M O T T O L A was born in Rio de aneiro, razil, and raised in Rome, Italy. Francesca moved to London at the age of , oining the foundation course at Chelsea College of rt and Design. During her time at art college, Francesca spent every spare moment at the movies and theatre, where her true passion as to what she wanted to pursue as a career was ignited. Francesca went on to study theatre design for performance at Central Saint Martins, where she solidified her love of Set Design and collaborated alongside film students from the London College of Printing. fter graduating, Francesca's interests gravitated toward design for the screen, and she began working on such films as Cold Mountain and Sweeney Todd. The first feature film Francesca designed—I Am Love—received international acclaim and won many awards. Since then, Francesca has worked internationally on renowned T shows and on indie films, including Dark Crimes, The Ones Below and Do Not Disturb. er design work includes T commercials for clients such as Nike, ulgari, mazon, olkswagen, alentino among others, and music videos for artists such as Chaka han, Robyn and arry Styles. er design for ing rule's music video Biscuit Town won her a M ward for best Production Design in . Francesca is currently designing the third season of ulu's The Great for which she also designed seasons one and two. For her work on season two, Francesca has received both an DG ward nomination and an Emmy nomination. In Frank's spare time he paints. Influenced by classic cartoons and comic books, Frank's paintings are an assemblage of inspiration from what he grew up watching on T and reading in comic books. Trying to capture the feeling and emotion of a moving cartoon on a flat canvas, Frank's work incorporates horrific and twisted subects in disturbingly bizarre situations. is work has been exhibited at the La Luz De esus Gallery, Copro Gallery, Corey elford Gallery, CSS Contemporary, Dark rt Emporium, rch Enemy rts, Phone ooth Gallery, Night Gallery Fine rts, Cannibal Flower, LTD. Gallery and yaena Gallery.