Derek Christiansen

So honored to be the Director of Photography for On a Bus, such an important and impactful and extremely real season of D20, that is, of course, on a bus (for the first ten minutes). 🚌💕

15.07.2025 13:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Screenshot of Polygon's "The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024" article, showing Dimension 20's "Never Stop Blowing Up" at number 14.

Endlessly honored to see the reception to the things we work on, and it's extra special to see it for NSBU. It's the first season that I spearheaded as Director of Photography as well as Ruby and I's projection work, and it continues to be one of the funniest things I've ever gotten to witness. #14!

24.12.2024 00:00 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

IM OBSESSED AND YELLING

12.12.2024 02:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Sydney Opera House, seen from the ferry.

Behind the video tech table for the Twenty-Sided Tavern, showing various monitors that control the video elements of the show, in front of the stage itself.

Just a normal day at the office, when your office this week just happens to be one of the most iconic buildings in the world.

11.12.2024 01:18 — 👍 21    🔁 1    💬 5    📌 0

THEY'RE SO CUTE THIS IS SO NICE AND COZY AAAAA

18.11.2024 06:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

every time jack draws my little nerd i WEEP WITH JOY

11.11.2024 05:36 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

oh i FORGOT to post here in... a year??? I will try to actually post some bts / work that I have done here, as well as actually post stuff as it happens!! tossing some photos of me while filming d20's fhjy here - you can see me in my natural habitat, vaguely gesturing at a camera 🫴 🎥

23.10.2024 02:36 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A still from Dimension 20's Mentopolis of Elias Hodge looking down at themselves while falling out a window, overlaid with the specific boots, jumpsuit, lab coat, and gloves they are wearing.

A close up shot of the grappling gun from Dimension 20's Mentopolis, with the specific NERF gun and grappling hook used to make it listed below.

Steal Their Look - Elias Hodge

Need the perfect outfit for jumping out a window to get away from your evil boss? Boy do I have the thing for you! It's Elias's outfit from Mentopolis! Grappling Gun included!!

This is all, truly, exactly what I wore for this. Yes, the gun is extremely front heavy.

18.09.2023 01:45 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

An illustration of the exterior of an art deco city, with skyscrapers filling the distance and a large round dome styled like an eye supported by columns in the foreground.

An illustration of the interior of a government building, with art deco wallpaper and patterns on the floor, and tubes with light racing through them. snaking along the walls and ceiling.

An illustration of a minimalistic alley with an art deco streetlight in front of brick walls with dark blue windows, and a hallway with racing ceiling lights leading into the distance.

and some more!! 👁️

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A series of chaotic interlocking black and white tubes and industrial equipment over an orange background.

An art deco panorama of an office in black and white with green wallpaper, and a cloud of smoke hovering near the ceiling.

A wide illustration of an art deco nightclub, in black, white, and red, with crowds of minimally rendered people talking and dancing below a haze of smoke.

posting some of the projections that Ruby and I made for dimension 20's mentopolis in honor of the finale tonight!! it was so much fun working with something so stylized (my favorite thing to do), and slowly losing my mind repeating "tubes tubes tubes" to myself as I drew each one individually 🧠

13.09.2023 22:02 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks so much!! That was a really fun season, and the first we did with D20! Also always have to shout out amazing @jackzarts.bsky.social who illustrated some of the backgrounds with us, and my partner Ruby as well! (they're not on here, but they also illustrated among other projectiony things!)

06.09.2023 02:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

can't wait to start sending you lots of memes for you to draw of your ocs

08.08.2023 04:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Brennan Lee Mulligan on the set of Dimension 20's Mentopolis, with a contraption of tubes spreading out from a polygonal face on the table in front of him, and a stylized gray brick alley with a beam of light shining down from a street lamp projected behind him.

The set of Desert Stories for Lost Girls, the fractured interior of a modest home, with dirt filling the stage below the platform, and an image of the sea projected across the fractured wall.

Two alien puppets from Happy Puppet Hour 2, seated behind a desk, shocked expressions on their face as an error message in a bright green alien font is projected across the wall behind them.

Matthew Mercer on the set of Dimension 20's Ravening War, behind the DM screen of spires and arches with assorted fruit imagery, and with the projected dusk skyline under fruit-shaped clouds on the dome behind him.

hi hi, bluesky!!

i'm derek, a designer who makes things look pretty for things that are performed! i do lots of things both live and recorded, most notably of late being the projection design for college humor's dimension 20

you can find me @derekcdesign everywhere i am, and at dpurpurea.studio ✨👀

04.08.2023 01:27 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0