Paul was born in Brooklyn New York on November 4th 1965 to Paul and Rosemarie Sciacca.
Paul's father was a commercial photographer and his mother painted, so Paul was always surrounded by art. At an early age he learned how to shoot pictures with an old manual canon 35mm camera and in his teens taught himself sculpture. After college and a career in sales in New York City Paul longed to use his artistic abilities to earn a living and soon turned to special make-up effects, pushing his limits and forcing him to grow artistically. He soon landed a job working on a film in N.Y. where he made some great friends and contacts. Shortly after this film Paul decided to move to Hollywood to full time work in make-up effects.
After nearly 10 years in the film industry Paul grew tired of the uncertainty and accepted a position with Disney. It would be nearly 4 years after this that Paul set out on his own.
After leaving Disney Paul went into toy sculpture which he found to be a stimulating challenge, sculpture for film was very rarely studied up close where toy sculpture had to be perfect for manufacturing. He soon developed relationships with all the major film studios to sculpt film promotional toys and grew his art company "Creations Ink" to nearly 25 artists. The Creations Ink team enjoyed a run in the top 5 toy prototype companies up until about the year 2001 when the industry started to shift over seas. With this shift and the events of 9/11
about the same time Paul decided after much regret to close his doors and move on. During the course of the next year, Paul started to develop web sites for clients and started" Affordable Marketing Resources" which involved all of his skills: Sculpture, Photography, Web Design, Graphic Design and Video Production and put them under one roof.
After only a year Paul decided that he missed sculpting and creating art full time and with the help of some longtime friends Paul has now opened Brooklyn Bridge Gift and Collectable and reopened his sculpture studio under the name Sciacca Studios. His sculpture studio now handles all of the design and sculpture for Brooklyn Bridge Gift and Collectables and various other toy and gift companies.
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