New blog!

Please visit http://www.pencilprimate.com/blog/

For all future blog posts. I post there often and here never... besides just now;)

Thanks!

Featured in 2D artist magazine!

14 page interview spread downloadable on their site here: Paul Sullivan interview

Also check out the link on my site here: http://www.pencilprimate.com/news/2015/2/20/2d-artist-magazine-features-paul-sullivan

New Website!

Hi everyone! I finally made a new website with updated artwork galleries. There are also news and events sections for updates on me, radio shows/ news articles and events relating to projects as well as past and future lectures.

I've transferred my blog to my new website too! I will be posting there from now on mostly, still feel free to check back here from time to time.

The domain name is the same but the site is new. FYI. I am updating it as we speak so it's a work in progress, but a lot of new art on the site!!

www.pencilprimate.com

http://www.pencilprimate.com

The Book of Life artwork!

These two paintings were done for the upcoming animated film The Book of Life releasing in theaters October 17 2014! I have personally had an amazing journey working on this film for the past five years with genius director Jorge Gutierrez and his awesomely talented wife and character designer Sandra Equihua! I have been Art Directing and Producion Dsigning along with Simon Varela. We were lucky to have an incredible team of talent to work with and help us develop the artwork for the film. I will add all of them in the links section under book of life artists once I gather all of their links. There will also be an art of book releasing just before the film  so keep an eye out for that, it will feature all of the awesome art from the team!

I will also probably be releasing the images in higher resolution later so you can see the characters better. But this is all that has been released so far, so keep checkin back as things pick up with the marketing of this film!

Enjoy!

Some links where they are talking about it:

Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/first-look-book-life-concept-683635

Animation Magazine

https://www.animationmagazine.net/events/art-show-offers-exclusive-preview-of-book-of-life/

Cinema Blend

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Gorgeous-Book-Life-Art-Colorfully-Takes-Us-Day-Dead-41871.html

Rotoscopers

http://www.rotoscopers.com/2014/02/26/concept-art-for-the-book-of-life-finally/

Animation Scoop

http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/first-peek-the-book-of-life

Slash Film

http://www.slashfilm.com/concept-art-guillermo-del-toro-produced-book-life/

Free Birds Art

 

Some Design work that I did for the film Free Birds(imdb page link). Here is the site link: http://www.freebirdsmovie.com/ This was fun stuff. I did a lot of work on the Time Pod; figuring out the launch sequence and what it looks like as well as the interior and exterior of the pod.
Also did some lighting keys, here is a sample of some stuff I did.

Franken-animal

This was the piece nominated for an award in Spectrum 20. The competition was stiff and we didn't win this time, I was just happy to be included in the book and to be showcased and considered amongst the final five people in my category by the distinguished panel of judges and professionals. My work isn't usually geared towards the Spectrum genre so I am happy when I have the chance to do something that can somewhat fit into the fantasy genre. I love the fact that there is a community that showcases artists as they do and  respects the arts in this way. I wish there were more out there like this and geared towards other genres of art, it is definitely nice to see and great motivation for all who participate.

The nomination gives me hope and motivation to keep going. Congrats to all who were nominated and all the award winners! It was a great trip and much needed vacation! A day at the spa was just what the doctor ordered!

Dolls and Robots

This is a sneak peek character design that was developed by me and sculpted by the lovely and talented Brooke Howell. The design was developed to a point and I art directed it the rest of the way in clay. Brooke was awesome to work with and I can't wait to do more with her. Here is what we came up with, It's for a personal project. All images and designs copyright Paul Sullivan

Dracula sketch

Dracula sketch from a while back. I forgot about it until today and thought I'd share!

1,000 likes on facebook!

Wow! I can't believe the amount of awesome support people, thank you very much for keeping up with my art! I've finally reached 1,000 likes on my Facebook art page! https://www.facebook.com/paulsconcepts
If you haven't already "liked" it yet and want to see what I've been up to please do so, the more the merrier;)

Here are some more samples of the art is did for Sly Cooper. Starting from the top, a painted character lineup from Feudal Japan, and some crop ins of that. Then I thought it would be good to show the rough sketch idea I had before executing the designs. Then the Le Paradox design and some sketches to show the evolution of that one. Murray notes on his design. Some environmental stuff from the Arabia location breaking the style for that area down from simple shape ideas and colors to wide shot and medium shots of how that language applies on different levels. After, the rough lineup of all the bosses together, I wanted to loosely make them an homage to kill bill and the deadly viper assassination squad. Hope you like them! It's a lot of stuff but I was encouraged to show more because of the support everyone has been kind enough to throw my way. I appreciate it guys and gals, you're the best!

Character design sketches for Sly

 

Caveman Cooper sketches, A dodo bird design and snow monkey design sketches.