About the Artist: Onorio D'Epiro Monster Melter 1904

Onorio D'Epiro explains his design inspiration for Monster Melter 1904:

“After I designed Monster Melter 3000 I didn’t have any future plans for the design, but I found myself doodling other monster characters that the little space guy could be fighting.

I guess I got carried away! Without thinking I found that I had drawn up a whole world of new ideas all based around the layout of the original Monster Melter.

That’s when I thought it would be great if these characters come from a timeline - they’re part of a proud lineage of monster hunters, and the monsters they face have evolved over the centuries.

Ultimately I hope people get as excited as I do thinking about all these different monsters and monster-slayers through the ages!”

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Onorio D’Epiro is a designer and illustrator from Bedfordshire, England. As a child he developed a fascination for character design and special effects and mastered the video recorder at a precocious age in order to feed his passion for film.

He studied Model Design and Special Effects at the University of Hertfordshire and after graduating was drawn to the world of designer art toys. He began by creating one-off bespoke pieces and later developed a series of robot collectables known as “Justrobots”, which gained a dedicated following around the world.

His work has been exhibited widely including at The Pictoplasma Portrait Gallery in Berlin, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the MARCO Museo de Arte, Contemporano in Mexico City.

He is currently working on developing some of his characters for a children’s television series. Check it out for yourself at: onoriodepiro.work