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Stephen Kulp is a Character Designer, Concept Artist and Illustrator based in Cape Town, South Africa. Stephen is based in Cape Town, South Africa

He specializes in character design, specifically the development and designing of 2D concepts. Stephen Kulp is a Concept Artist specializing in Illustration, Digital Painting, Caricature and Character Design.

12/06/2026

Goliath Expressions - The David Movie - Post #5 of #5

Hi there, Happy Friday! Blessed to share the final few close ups of Goliath. I remember him yelling "DO YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME!!!" - What a chilling scene.

Congrats to the team on the success of the film, charting #1 on Netflix.

So awesome! Thanks for all the likes, comments and shares, it's so awesome to be appreciated and supported by you all. 👏

Have an awesome weekend.

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11/06/2026

Goliath Expressions - The David Movie - Post #4 of #5

Hi there, blessed to share some more close ups of Goliath.

Congrats to the team on the success of the film, charting #1 on Netflix.

So awesome! Thanks for all the likes, comments and shares, it's so awesome to be appreciated and supported by you all. 👏

Have a great day further and stay tuned for the others incoming...

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09/06/2026

Goliath Expressions - The David Movie - Post #3 of #5

Hi there, blessed to share some more close ups of Goliath.

Congrats to the team on the success of the film, charting #1 on Netflix.

So awesome! Thanks for all the likes, comments and shares, it's so awesome to be appreciated and supported by you all. 👏

Have a great day further and stay tuned for the others incoming...

Concept by

06/06/2026

Here is an overview of the moments we worked on for Goliath. It was super fun working on all of these, having a professional excuse to get into that arrogant, prideful persona we know him for.

Big shout out to the team at large for their contributions, both in regard to story and concept as well as the production support. .percy thank you for your stellar personality and ease to work with, I apsire to be as easy going as you are under pressure. Thanks for your cool and fun vision and trust while working on these, it brought me so much joy to see how happy you'd get when review time came. .prusiano , thanks to all of you for every bit of contribution toward making this giant come to life, you guys are awesome and great to work with.

, you were right along side us while this was all unfolding and you are a big part of the character too, thanks for everything.

I also want to make mention of the HBD team, (who created the original concept we worked from) , of whom contributions and amazing artworks all built up toward the final. What a privilege it was to work with all of you. I learnt tons from your wealth of talent.

Thanks to management and directors, for your trust and leadership. I've learnt so much from all of you and strive to be even better.

It goes without saying that there were many more people who touched on the work in some way, shape or form, and if I've missed anyone dm me and I'll edit the post.

By the way, I believe The David Movie is trending #1 on Netflix right now, wow, if you haven't seen it yet, go!

Stay tuned for "closer up" versions to be posted soon.

05/06/2026

Hey guys, its been a while. Im excited to share the first bit of some of the expression sheets work I had the privilege of working on for Goliath. It was super fun working on all of these, having a professional excuse to get into that arrogant, prideful persona we know him for.

Big shout out to the team at large for their contributions, both in regard to story and concept as well as the production support. .percy thank you for your stellar personality and ease to work with, I apsire to be as easy going as you are under pressure. Thanks for your cool and fun vision and trust while working on these, it brought me so much joy to see how happy you'd get when review time came. .prusiano , thanks to all of you for every bit of contribution toward making this giant come to life, you guys are awesome and great to work with.

, you were right along side us while this was all unfolding and you are a big part of the character too, thanks for everything.

I also want to make mention of the HBD team, (who created the original concept we worked from) , of whom contributions and amazing artworks all built up toward the final. What a privilege it was to work with all of you. I learnt tons from your wealth of talent.

Thanks to management and directors, for your trust and leadership. I've learnt so much from all of you and strive to be even better.

It goes without saying that there were many more people who touched on the work in some way, shape or form, and if I've missed anyone, please forgive my Friday morning pre-2nd-coffee brain, dm me and I'll edit the post.

By the way, I believe The David Movie is trending #1 on Netflix right now, wow, if you haven't seen it yet, go!

Stay tuned for some more expresisons to be posted soon.

08/05/2026

Even giants needs dental care.

Some notes on Goliaths teeth creation. His head and jaw has a unique shape and we needed to bear in mind that the teeth needed to fit correctly to avoid the risk of it feeling awkward or "wrong". It was my job to paint these teeth in and supply some notes to the 3D team on how they would look, fit and function. The team nailed it. 👏

Have a real happy Friday and stay tuned for more.

07/05/2026

Hey everyone!

Quick pop in, continuing on from the previous post. Goliath work in progress images and notes and I collaborated on during production of the David movie.

The notes on Goliath were so minimal simply because Ryan had hit the character out of the park very early on already from the drawings supplied. Amazing work and skill 👏. Well done Ryan

I heard the film released in Spain a few days ago and was so well received. Great news and as always congrats to all who was involved on the film.

Have a great day further!

30/04/2026

Hi friends.

Here is the approved full body turnaround of Goliath for the modelling team. First time ever having to work with 6 fingers and 6 toes 😜.

Thanks to Daniel Rodriguez .prusiano for helping on this too, I remember the note of making him taller and narrowing the waist as he was stockier before. Much prefer the more athletic vertical stretch we ended up with.

Have a great day further!

27/04/2026

Following on from the previous post, a bit more technical, this is just a pass with some notes on key elements we needed to pay special attention to, so that we could really nail his look in 3D.

24/04/2026

Good morning lovely people.

Amidst all the busyness , I found a gap to continue to share some work I had the privilege of touching on for the David movie.

In this case I was assigned the task to create the turnaround of the amazing concept done by the very talented .

It was a real fun challenge figuring out what the front and profile could be of such an interesting face.

Thanks to the leadership at Sunrise Animation Studios for trusting me with the task of making Goliath production ready especially .percy, but allow me to pause here and say that this character was a massive (excuse the pun) team effort of which we all drew inspiration and built ontop of one anothers work to get to where we ultimately did.

did some real heavy lifting (excuse the pun) on Goliath creating some iconic moment pieces and developing alot of his character alongside the very clear and confident direction from Production Designer and Art Director . There are more people I'll be mentioning too, relevant to the various phases.

I will be sharing some more of the thoughts / notes on the head later, as well as the body turnaround etc.

We hope you like it.

Have a great day further! See you later ☀🙏

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