Floro Dery

Who is Floro Dery?

Floro Dery is a Filipino illustrator best known for his works in the 1980s The Transformers TV series and was the visual creator of The Transformers: The Movie. He interpreted some of the toys' box art and created the models that would become the visual guidelines both for the comics book and the animated cartoon appearances of those characters. He was also charged with designing all the characters introduced in the movie, Galvatron, Cyclonus, Scourge, Unicron, Ultra Magnus, Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime, Junkions, Quintessons, Springer, Blurr, Wheelie, Kup, and Arcee.

Dery had also worked along with fellow Filipino, Alex Niño, as a storyboard artist for Sunbow Productions, working on the 1987 animated series, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light.