Shame on you all. Only one person had the intelligence to say Derren Brown. Seriously you all do need to open your eyes to the world outside of T11. I think Wayne Houchin is the best T11 artist...
Derren Brown is a great thinker, however his team comes up with a majority of his effects, including Andy Nyman, Luke Jermay etc.
Chris Angel as well, most of the time he just changes exisiting ideas posted by his team of magicians the slightest. He's more of a face rather than a creator.
Wayne Houchin and Danny Garcia. I am not flaming them, but you would be suprised how many of their effects are actually "fresh" as most are just minor variations.
*Thread by Wayne Houchin is an old Carney's trick with a few changes.
*Stigmata originally is from Banachek, who also credited the effect to someone else, who escapes me atm.
*Life by Danny Garcia. Paperfold belonged to Robert Neale and presentation was from Andrew Goldenhersh, with minor changes made by Danny Garcia.
I can go on, but please do some research and you will find that many "NEW EFFECTS" are just small changes made to old existing effects.
LOL creativity is blurred these days.