BONUS EPISODE - Dave Perillo is a freelance illustrator and designer based in the Philadelphia area. His signature retro art style is rooted in his love of mid-century modern aesthetics and classic Americana design.

Dave is a freelance Illustrator and designer based out of the Philly burbs. In 1st grade, I revealed in my autobiography Me Book that I wanted to be the cartoon character Ziggy. I also wanted to be an artist. With the help of an Ed Emberly drawing book, hours of cartoons and a “healthy” diet of sugary cereals, I doodled my way through school on to college to study graphic design. Taking classes like typography and color theory helped make me a better illustrator. My retro art style developed from my love of the mid-century modern aesthetic. I'm inspired by Walt Disney, Mary Blair, Charles Schultz, Jim Flora, Ray Harryhausen, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Henson, Hanna Barbera, 1950’s Sci-Fi Movies, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock and character advertising icons. As a kid I always drew what I liked. I still get to do that today. I feel very fortunate to have a career I love. And...if things don't work out in the art world - I could still be Ziggy!

Clients include:

Disney • Pixar • Target • Warner Bros • 20th Century Fox • Universal • CBS • Dreamworks • Lionsgate • Laika • Marvel Studios • DC Comics • Nickelodeon • Cartoon Network • Lucasfilm • Mattel • Hasbro • USAopoly • Galison/Mudpuppy • Simon & Schuster • Penguin Random House • Bento Box Entertainment • Wawa Inc. • Purina • Peanuts • The Beatles • Metallica

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Original YouTube air date April 26, 2022

Shane Grammer is an urban-inspired artist and sculptor whose bold, expressive style has gained international recognition. His work has been featured worldwide and prominently displayed in Disney park galleries around the globe.

Shane excels in directing, managing, and leading teams across conceptual design, fabrication, and the installation of global projects. His artistic footprint spans cities worldwide, gracing places like Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Cambodia, South Korea, and Dubai, with his paintings prominently displayed in Disney Park Galleries across the globe.

Shane's achievements include noteworthy coverage in the LA Times for his work in Paradise, acknowledgment as one of the Best Pictures of 2019 by the Associated Press, and features in prestigious publications like the New York Times and Washington Post. His engaging presence extends to appearances on NBC's Sunday Morning Show with Willie Geist and National Geographic.

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Original YouTube air date 2-11-2025

Dave Avanzino is a fine artist and scenic designer living in the Southern California area. For more than a two decades, Dave has created numerous one-of-a-kind, limited and open edition pieces for Disneyland®, Walt Disney World® and the Disney Cruise Line. He typically works in a 3-D style and creates mixed-media paper sculptures in shadowbox frames. Recently Dave has been converting some of his artwork into 2-D formats that can be reproduced as Canvas Giclées and Matted Deluxe Prints while working to keep some of the character and depth of his dimensional works.

His unique, dimensional style presents familiar characters, words and phrases in a fresh new way. Dave uses a variety of materials including paper, wood, metal, wire, etc., to create his artwork. He enjoys combining different textures, colors and materials and depth in order to make his designs literally pop off the page. One of the elements Dave enjoys including in his artwork, in addition to the characters, is words. The great library of classic Disney films and attractions has given him an endless source of rich, wonderful words and phrases he can create his artwork around. Whether it's a quote by the Evil Queen from Snow White or the name of a Disney® theme park, Dave can come up with a way to represent it in his distinctive dimensional style.

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Over the past few years Dave has been designing a series of unique Tiki-themed signs and artwork. The first ones were whimsical Tiki Bar Signs featuring unique names and signature drinks. These were produced as limited edition handmade paper sculptures and reproduced as wrapped canvases, wood signs and matted prints. In addition he has designed and created a series of one-of-a-kind paper sculpture Tikis. Dave has also recently introduced a line of artwork he calls "Tiki Bots" which are a mashup of Tiki Culture and Mid-Century Robots.