Mike Corriero lives and works out of Colonia, NJ (USA) With 16+ years of experience as a freelance Concept artist and Illustrator for the Entertainment Industries, he has worked for companies such as FATace Production Limited HK, Liquid Development, Radical Entertainment, Applibot Inc., Paizo Publishing, Zynga Inc., The Topps Company and Hasbro Inc., among others. He excels in Creature Design, which he also taught as an online instructor for the Academy of Art University along with several workshops published in ImagineFX Magazine, 2DArtist, 3DTotal and Advanced Photoshop Magazine in addition to other Magazines around the world. Mike went on to earn a BA in Illustration from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in May of 2003 and has been freelancing in the game industry ever since. He paints characters, Illustrations, environments and pre-production content but his main love is and always has been rooted in Creature Design. He is considered by many of his peers to be among the top creature concept artist in his field with a great understanding of animal anatomy. Mike grew up with a love for the outdoors, animals, how things functioned, comics, games and movies. Most of his childhood and teen years were spent dreaming up entire worlds and ecosystems of lavish and freaky species and characters. His love for animals came from a rather large list of an assortment of pets. These would include Hamsters, Goldfish, Dogs, a Cat, a Ferret, Bunnies, Birds, a Bold Jumping Spider, Dark Fishing Spider and most recently a Crested Gecko named Gizmo.