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Steven Cartoccio
Steven Cartoccio aka Concrete Jungle is a visual artist from New York. He is known for creating collectible statues of hip-hop artists like Nas, The Notorious B.I.G, Wu-Tang Clan and many others. He is the creator of the animated series Concrete Jungle.

Cartoccio attended the School of Visual Arts and earned a BFA in fine arts and animation.

Animation
During his time as a student at SVA, Cartoccio developed his stop-motion animated thesis film Concrete Jungle. The short was a comedy about humans and anthropomorphic animals living together in NYC. After graduation he developed the short into a web series with voices from John DiMaggio, Eugene Mirman, Dana Snyder, Hannibal Buress and Godfrey. Upon the debut of Bojack Horseman and Animals, Cartoccio decided to stop the series and adopted the series as his professional art name.

Sculpture
In 2016 Cartoccio released his first art toy- Frankpool a resin figure parodying the Marvel character Deadpool with his mascot Frank the Bulldog. After a few more comic parody statues, he began creating official collectibles with hip-hop artists. The first hip-hop statue with Run The Jewels released in 2017. Concrete Jungle has since released official statues with Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Method Man, Redman, Sean Price, The Notorious B.I.G, Nas, Rakim and Outkast.