Glenn Pauline - Biography
Born and raised in Southern California, Glenn Pauline has always been drawing.
At age 11, curious to learn art, he met Warner Bros. animator Sheldon Borenstein at his life drawing class. From then on, Borenstein mentored him on traditional drawing, painting, and design. Learning and growing at his art school helped Glenn pursue art and graduate from Art Center College of Design in 2016.
Glenn went on to begin his career doing a few animated shorts for a Court of the Dead animated series at Sideshow Collectibles LLC, during a time where there was a push to transition the intellectual property from realism to animation.
Shortly after that time, he stayed at Sideshow Collectibles, to work on vinyl products and help oversee the sub brand Unruly Industries grow with new style outlets for product intellectual properties.
During those 3 1/2 years of product design at Sideshow Collectibles as a Concept Designer, he gained the skills to work through all the levels of the creative process.
Glenn’s design success grew with many releases such as comedian and actor Gabriel Iglesias's limited edition Fat and the Furious figure, as well as character designs for music star Anderson Paak.
From then on, He had the pleasure to concept design on large amount licensed projects such as Marvel, DC, Kieth Haring Foundation, Iron Maiden, and Star Wars.
In 2020, the choice to lead and manage teams more often lead him to start a new opportunity working as a Lead Illustrator for the design agency Cool Design Studios (COOL LLC) in Canoga Park, CA. At COOL, Glenn assembled and managed creative teams to create pitches, strategies for global brands, re-brand imagery, innovative product solutions. Working with creative design studios like Vans Vault and Nars Cosmetics, he quickly became the Art Director for the agency.
He’s had the pleasure to art direct on a large variety of advertising pitches, through Endeavor Entertainment Group for companies like McDonald’s, Great Value Walmart Inc., NAHMIAS Clothing and much more.
Glenn is always passionate about art and design and never gives up a chance to improve. Now he uses that experience to create characters, products, and oversee style and design. With his wide variety of experience in many industry teams, Glenn loves to help others get the job done!