Tom Sullivan (special effects artist)

Tom Sullivan is an American special effects artist and actor, known primarily for his work on The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness, as well as The Fly II.

Tom Sullivan
NationalityAmerican
Years active1978–present
Known forSpecial effects

Career

In the mid-1970s, Sullivan met director Sam Raimi because his wife, Penny was attending Michigan State University as the same time as Raimi, along with actor Bruce Campbell, screenwriter Scott Spiegel, and producer Robert Tapert.[1][2] Sullivan bonded with Raimi over their mutual interest in stop-motion animation, special effects, claymation, and puppetry in relation to filmmaking. He joined the crew of Raimi's 1978 short film Within the Woods as a special effects artist.[3] He would later work on The Evil Dead, Raimi's feature-length remake of Within the Woods, as a special makeup effects artist, where he worked with such materials as foam latex and fake blood.[1] For the latter, he used coffee as an added ingredient to the traditional fake blood formula of corn syrup and food coloring.[1][2] Sullivan designed and illustrated The Book of the Dead and created the Kandarian Dagger. Tom Sullivan and Bart Pierce designed, co-animated the clay stop motion "meltdown" of the deadites at the film's finale. That took three months to film.

After the success of The Evil Dead, which was released in 1981, Sullivan worked as an effects artist and animator on its 1987 sequel Evil Dead II.[3] He then worked as a sculptor on the 1989 film The Fly II, before working on special effects for Army of Darkness, the third and final installment in the original Evil Dead trilogy, released in 1992.[3] Sullivan's work on the Evil Dead series was chronicled in the 2014 documentary film Invaluable, directed by Ryan Meade.[4][5]

Selected filmography

References
  1. David Konow (July 21, 2014). "How The Evil Dead's Tom Sullivan Mastered Low-Budget Effects". Tested. Archived from the original on February 17, 2019. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  2. William Grabowski (January 19, 2017). ""Evil Dead" Effects Master Tom Sullivan Honored". Medium. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  3. "Interview with Tom Sullivan (The Evil Dead)". Love-It-Loud. Archived from the original on February 18, 2019. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  4. Brad Miska (May 14, 2014). "INDIE'Evil Dead's' Tom Sullivan Honored In New Doc, 'Invaluable'". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  5. Steve Barton (May 14, 2014). "An Invaluable Documentary Takes a Look at Evil Dead's Tom Sullivan". Dread Central. Archived from the original on February 17, 2019. Retrieved February 17, 2019.

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