SullAmiga is a digital artist. His work was at the forefront of Desktop Video in the late 80's as Commodore Amiga computers and early Mac's started to be used in animation and art projects.
SullAmiga, aka Brett Sullivan, pioneered computer animation and film in his high school major art work in 1988 in Sydney, Australia. The work attracted national press and Sullivan was soon commissioned by Federal Publishing in 1989, at age 18, to write a book about the emergence of computers in film, tv and art. Entitled "Desktop Video' it predicted the inevitable rise of desktop computing as a potent creative tool in the foundling industry of motion graphics.
Sullivan continued writing for national newspapers and magazines in Australia about emerging technologies and was a creator amongst early VR and interactive technologies. He also taught the first computer graphics courses at the Australian Film and Television School.
With the advent of the internet, Sullivan co-founded Adstream. Adstream was an early video asset and streaming company delivering commercials globally via the internet. Built for broadcasters and advertisers, it eliminated the need for videotape and couriers throughout Australia, UK and Europe.
Since then, Sullivan created creative agency Steam Motion and Sound in London and New York and has worked as a director for the world's biggest music artists and live theatre across Broadway, London's West End, through Europe and Australia and Canada.
This site is a nod to Sullivan's digital art under his moniker 'SullAmiga'. Early software used included DeluxePaint, Videoscape 3D, Lightwave 3D, Scala. Early hardware included the Commodore Amiga 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, Newtek Video Toaster, OpalVision and various Genlocks and VHS/Low Band Umatic Recorders. Once the Amiga called it a day, SullAmiga took up Cosa After Effects 1.0 on the Mac in the mid 90s and has been on that journey since then.
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