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Derek Christiansen @derekcdesign.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

we're back - season two! so excited to have been able to serve as director of photography once again for our beloved dragon master. truly the most innovative thing coming out of D20 to date, and I can't wait for you to get to see 👀🚌 and no this is not a joke

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Derek Christiansen @derekcdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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). 🚌💕

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Derek Christiansen @derekcdesign.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

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!

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

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Derek Christiansen @derekcdesign.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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.

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.

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Derek Christiansen @derekcdesign.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

every time jack draws my little nerd i WEEP WITH JOY

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Derek Christiansen @derekcdesign.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

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 🫴 🎥

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Derek Christiansen @derekcdesign.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

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.

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.

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Derek Christiansen @derekcdesign.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

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 🧠

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.

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Derek Christiansen @derekcdesign.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

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 ✨👀

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.

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.

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