THE CREATORS
"Where?"
Robin Poppert (Magsino)
Robin was raised in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. She attended public art magnet schools from Kindergarden until her high school graduation. While growing up in a lifestyle saturated in creativity she subjected herself in several artistic disciplines from off-set printing to broken robot self portraits to real/plush taxidermy. Her love of felt/plush led her to the midwest where she attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduation in 2007, Robin pursued a personal art project heavily inspired by a childhood filled with old british children television shows and notebooks filled with messy doodles. Coloring outside the lines has always been a calming sensation for her and it is clearly reflected onto the overall style of Little Brass Bird.
"I thought you were dead..."
Rhodrick Magsino
Rhodrick graduated from the Audio Arts & Acoustics curriculum from Columbia College Chicago in 2007. However, he started his professional artistic career in 2006 working on indie films and reality television all around Chicago & LA as a post-production sound engineer & composer. His zombie short film “Dead Resin” was screened in a number of festivals around the country and is currently being distributed through Digital Shadow Films Distribution, LLC.
His life took a drastic change when he got a part time job with the Shawnimals design studio in late 2007. The designer toy world was new, quirky and fasinating! It was also that studio where he met and married his wife and business partner Robin Poppert.
After he took his leave from Shawnimals in 2009, Rhodrick pursued the project [Little Brass Bird] where his love for plush toys, film and Filipino food were combined into an ultra force bonanza!