2019 Griffith Film School Graduate Productions
We welcome you to view the creative production outcomes from our 2019 Griffith Film School Bachelors and Honours students from film, animation, and games design.
All 2018 productions are available to view unrestricted (no password required)
2019 Film and Screen Media productions
- Always Means Forever
- Old emotions resurface after Leo is invited to the wedding of his friend/ex-girlfriend Amy. After being asked to photograph the wedding a wedge is driven between them. In a deluded attempt to reconcile with her, Leo blindly sets off to Bribie Island to find Amy’s estranged father Colt and get him to the wedding in time. Always Means Forever is a tragic love story, exploring a relationship years after it . has ended, and Leo’s desperate last-ditch effort to win back the woman he is yet to realise he is still deeply in love with.
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- Producer: Tasha Stareczek
- Director/Writer: Luke Williams
- Director of Photography: Scott Dunbar
- Production Designer: Molly Donahoe
- Editor: Logan Alexander
- Executive Producer / 1st AD: Bodi Cowley
- Production Manager: Eloise Copp
- Sound Recordist: Vahid Fazel
- Sound Designer: Lachlan Klip
- 2nd AD: Freya Brunning
- Production Design Assistant: Erin Huber and Duy Phan
- 1st and 2nd Assistant Camera: Finn Kenafake; Richard Schindler and Jackson Kanaris
- Griffith Film School Supervisors: Dean Chircop, Sean Gilligan, Priscilla Cameron and Dean Law
- Cast: Alexander Claude and Clare Fotinos
- Attraction
- After an argument with his girlfriend, Lana, a high school student, Will, tells his mother that he wants to break up with Lana because of the advice in his estranged father’s best- selling self-help book. Will’s mother reminds him that his father abandoned them for money, and dismisses the book’s advice as selfish. Later that night, Will experiences a lucid dream, in which his father, John, presents him with a vision of his ideal woman and encourages Will to attend an art exhibition he’s funding...
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- The next morning, Will attends his father’s art exhibition which contains a cube-shaped sculpture with a glowing door. Will enters the cube and discovers a surreal environment in which his father presents him with his ideal woman. The woman and his father offer Will the opportunity to live an ideal life with them if he agrees to abandon everyone he knows. Will rejects the offer and exits the cube. Upon exiting the cube, Will discovers Lana has come to the gallery to reconcile, and they agree to spend the evening together with Will’s mother.
- Producer: Jackson Kanaris
- Director/Writer: Izac Brodrick
- Director of Photography: Angus McArthur-Williams
- Production Manager: Finn Kenafake
- Editor: Calvin Sim
- 1st AD: Romaan Asche
- Sound Designer: Shannon Wildrose
- Assistant Writer: Noah Gerometta
- 1st and 2nd AD: Tahlia Taylor and Gabriella Ahaltis
- Cast: Joel Drabble, Vyvyan Black, Skye Fellman, Angela Dennis
- Dreaming of Fireworks
- Isabelle and Charles find their marriage at near breaking-point. Heartbroken and betrayed, Isabelle agrees to join Charles for dinner in a last attempt to heal the fragile relationship and reignite lost flames. But when the conversation derails and Charles refuses to acknowledge his mistakes, a rage fuelled argument breaks out. Isabelle and Charles, both at their wits end, must decide if this marriage is worth saving.
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- Producer: Sean Abnett
- Director/Writer: Kyle Butt
- Director of Photography: Toby Masterson
- Production Designer: Jade Thorburn
- Editor: Lucy Champion
- 1st AD: Lachlan Klip
- Production Manager: Marley Houston
- Sound Recordist/Designer: Daniel Meldrum
- Composer: Joseph Morrison
- 1st and 2nd AD: Daniel Patterson and Lillian Carrara
- Assistant Editor / Data Wrangler: Seth Lebrese
- Cast: Aimee Duroux and Andrew Groundwater
- Keepsake
- Some time after Natalie (21) had found herself alone on earth, she battles the loss of her fiancé. However when she finds another survivor, Cameron (26), she is confronted by his perspective of life. Challenged to choose which world she wants to live, the past or present, she must defend herself. Until a moment of Cameron’s madness sends himself and her phone out of her life. Until she is alone again.
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- Producer/Animation: Gabriella Ahlatis
- Writer/Director: Jacinta Taylor
- Cinematographer: Jamie-Lee Tipo
- Editor: David Ballin
- 1st AD: Ollie Croft and Lillian Carrara
- Production Manager: Abby Sheather
- Music Composer: Daniel Milad
- 2nd AD: Dean Abnett
- VFX Artist/ Supervisor: Liam Straw
- Griffith Supervisors: Dean Chircop, Priscilla Cameron, Dean Law and Sean Gilligan
- Casting Supervisor: Joshua Kho
- Cast: Cameron Rouse and Richard Lund
- Othered
- Based on true events. It’s senior year for Joy (17) and Elijah (18), who attend an all-white high school in a rural town. From their peers to their teachers, they experience racism on a daily basis. Elijah grapples with fetishisation from a love interest while Joy struggles to find her voice. A series of vignettes tied together with a powerful slam poetry performance.
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- Producer: Joanna Letic
- Director: Jeremy Bobby and Eden Guade
- Writer: Eden Guade
- Director of Photography: Brianna Reye
- Production Designer: Jim Capewell
- Editor: Madeline Leonard
- Music Composer: Elcid Flores
- Casting Director: Joshua Kho
- Cast: Peter Irankunda and Rainbow Wedell
- Spiritual Farm
- Far away from a world of hate, crime and addiction there is place where outcasts of all kinds come together to rehabilitate, discover their spirit animal and find a family. This place is known as Spiritual Farm. Jill, the founder, makes it her life goal to ensure that every single farm member is following their spiritual path. Daniel, a hesitant new member, is being forced to participate in the farms activities as punishment for breaking the law...
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- Jill takes on Daniel's reluctance as a challenge and works hard to make Dan participate in spiritual activities. However, Jill is met with an eviction notice after the millionth noise complaint which means she needs a new farm and fast! As a bonding exercise, she uses Dan’s struggle to fit in as an excuse to enter him and the chicken choir into a local talent show. Though secretly she plans to use the prize money to buy a new farm. Will they win the competition and save spiritual farm?
- Producer: Kate Boylan-Ascione
- Director: Maddy Healy
- Director of Photography: Dan Patterson
- Production Designer: Isabelle Rickards
- Production Manager: Jake Wiseman
- Editor: Harry Gale
- 1st AD: Aneesh Aggarwal
- Sound Recordist: Daniel Meldrum
- Sound Designer: Lee Sugars
- VFX Artist: Liam Straw
- Cast: Tracie Filmer and Jeremy Johnstone
- The Dog Days of a Suburban Bank Robber
- The Dog Days of a Suburban Bank Robber is a crime-comedy following Elliot and Jimmy, two friends who have been close since they were young. When a robbery goes wrong, Elliot abandons Jimmy to get arrested. 10 years later, Elliot manages a bank, while Jimmy leaves prison. After running into each other coincidentally the pair argue when Elliot finds out Jimmy is causing his bank. Their argument is interrupted when two armed men with dog masks begin to rob the bank.
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- Producer: Kiely Edwards
- Writer/Director: Bailey Warner
- Director of Photography: Samuel Vayro
- Production Designer: Gabby Rafter
- Editor/Data Wrangler: Aaron Gisler
- 1st AD: Dane Shaw
- Production Manager: Marley Houston
- Sound Recordist: Jordan Phillips
- Sound Designer: Mitchell Toft
- Cast: Richard Lund and Lucas Tranchitella
- The Isolis Project
- After volunteering for an artificial intelligence development company, worker 0-1337 begins to question his purpose after witnessing murder.
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- Producer: Sean McParland
- Writer/Director: Liam Straw
- Cinematographer: Lillian Carrara
- Production Manager: Alex Harrison
- Production Designer: Jessica Fuller and Brooke Shepherd
- 1st AD: Luke Creasy
- Editor: Oliver Crofts
- Sound Recordist/ Sound Design: Angus Manion
- Music: Jarvis Miller
- VFX Artist: Tim Bahrij
- Cast: Taylor Glockner and Roger Dvorak
- The Suede Drapes
- Chaz, Frankie and Eli are three budding musicians that make up the riveting ensemble of The Suede Drapes. Nick, an amateur filmmaker, documents them as they aim to record their debut LP at the Walters Cabin Studio, which has been made infamous by the suicide of Australian music legend Steven Alderson only 13 months prior to their arrival. Throughout their stay, bandmates Frankie and Eli notice some strange behaviour becoming of Chaz...
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- They suspect his history of drug use may have resurfaced within him- however their priorities suddenly change and are questioned upon the discovery of Bob’s dead body, the cabin’s producer.
- Producer: Zoe Tansey
- Writer/Director: Khan Eckford
- Director of Photography: James Southam
- 1st AD/Production Manager: Alisha Curtin
- Production Designer: Karri Munchenberg
- Editor: Jovan Stojanovski
- Sound Recordist: Ryan Mulligan
- Sound Designer: Leslie Bradley
- Cast: Luke Corrin Care, Gianni Balatti-Hill, Khan Eckford, Joel Cummerford, James Southam
- Music video: Pour by Greta Stanley
- A beautiful landscape featuring a loving couple is the only ray of light in a lonely cleaner’s bare apartment. The concert hall he works at is featuring a stunning new exhibit. Following a performance at the hall, the cleaner’s routine is interrupted when the exhibition breaks into dance. As he watches he begins to fall for the exhibit and before long he is daydreaming a fantasy world, taking place within the same artwork from his apartment.
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- Artist: Greta Stanley
- Teddy: Matt Okine
- Dancer/Choreographer: Dana Paige Coles
- Writer/Director: Brendan Schoenmaker
- Producer/1st AD: Nicole Collett
- Cinematographer/Colourist: Mungo Heath
- Editor/VFX/Sound Designer: Christopher Ashton
- Production Designer/Costumes: Emma Thomas
- Gaffer: James Southam
- Lighting Assistants: Alex Matha, Liam Stewart-Smith, Hamish Williams, Millan Pratt
- 1st Assistant Camera: Tom Alvos
- 2nd Assistant Camera: Dane Shaw
- Continuity Supervisor: Sean Abnett
- Sound Recordist: Benjamin Gusenga, Angus William Taj Manion
- Costume Assistant: Zoe Hilditch
- Key Grip: Patsy Brown
- Grip Assistant: Reece Harrison
- Unit Manager: Lillian Carrara
- Production Assistants: Josh Pulford, Claire Russo, Olivia Lawson, Miljana Miljevic
- Make-up Artists: Lucy Champion and Zoe Evans
- BTS Photographers: Nathan Hutcheon and Layla Hutchins
2019 Animation productions
- Welcome to Winton
- Format: 2D Animation
- A laid-back opal miner drives to his home in the Australian town of Winton after a hard day’s work to lean back in his recliner, crack a cold one and look out to his country view. Meanwhile, as a UFO begins its fiery hot descent into the atmosphere, an alien pilot furiously hammers at the buttons, desperately trying to save his skin. Soon, the beauty of the dusty Queensland landscape will bring them together.
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- Director:
- Julen Goni
- Producer:
- Liadin Knee
- Music Composition:
- Kyle LJ
- Sound Design:
- Jack Cassidy
- Story:
- Julen Goni
- Initial Concept Art:
- Grace Schodel, Nicole Lah-Youn
- Backgrounds:
- Isabella Laman, Liadin Knee, Yaseen Yusuf
- Lead Animator and Supervisor:
- Julen Goni
- Rough Animation:
- Kyle Lovan, Madi Marston, Janna Misa, Nathanael Moore, Grace Schodel
- Clean & Colour:
- Liadin Knee, Isabella Laman, Jack Lane, Madi Marston, Janna Misa, Nathanael Moore, Aidan Poljuha, Liam Waterhouse, Grace Schodel
- Colouring:
- Adelle Roberts, Elise Matt Rowan, Ash Spivey
- Lead Supervisor:
- Peter Moyes
- Special Thanks:
- Roxy Chown, Yoel Hill
- Dot
- Format: 2D Animation
- Dot, a lonely young woman, is trapped in a life of monotony. Every morning she wakes to the sound of an aggressive alarm and spends her day slumped in a dull office... Until one afternoon she arrives home and discovers a sickly cactus sitting on her doorstep. Taking it in, she nurses it back to health and places it under a glass dome...
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- The pair quickly become friends and go on adventures together... Until the cactus becomes sick again, smothered by her love. Dot tries to help it, but her care does not work anymore. As all hope seems lost, a bird’s song drifts in through the window, and suddenly Dot knows what to do! Filling her apartment with pots and seeds, Dot takes the dome off the cactus and places it with the others. In the morning Dot awakens to a room exploding with plants, her dreary apartment transformed into a luscious rainforest. In the centre she discovers her cactus friend restored to health.
- Director/Writer:
- Rosie Murrell
- Producer:
- Grace Schodel
- Animators:
- Narissa Amies, Max Gibson, Isabella Laman, Kyle Lovan, Rosie Murrell, Aidan Poljuha and Grace Schodel
- Score:
- Kyle Lacey-Janetzki
- Voice:
- Roxy Chown
- Editing:
- Rosie Murrell
- Not So Grim
- Format: 2D Animation
- When the Grim Reaper’s child, Rei, befriends an accident-prone crow, he makes it his mission to keep the crow alive at all costs! But when the crow drowns, the only way that Rei thinks to save him is by refilling the crow’s ‘Hourglass of Life’ with dirt - instead of life-giving sand! However, when Grim catches Rei in the act, he has a slightly “grimmer” solution to Rei and Crow’s dilemma.
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- Director/Story/Concept/Animation Direction:
- Narissa Amies
- Producer:
- Kasey Lee
- Voice:
- Grace Summerbell and Nathanael Moore
- Sound:
- Tae Young
- Music:
- Shani Raman, Andre Van and Matthew Ting
- Orchestra:
- Shani Raman, Matthew Ting and Anna Rabinowicz
- Art Direction:
- Narissa Amies and Ray Pilley
- Backgrounds:
- Ray Pilley, Kasey Lee and Grace Schodel
- Animators:
- Narissa Amies, Roxy Chown, Jack Lane, Kyle Lovan, Joyce Mekonnen, Nathanael Moore, Ray Pilley, Aidan Poljuha, Cindy van der Kreek, Maya Westbury and Janna Misa
- Clean up and Colouring:
- Narissa Amies, Roxy Chown, Jack Lane, Kasey Lee, Kyle Lovan, Joyce Mekonnen, Janna Misa Isabella Laman, Rosie Murrell, Ray Pilley, Aidan Poljuha, Carissa Sugiarto, Jessica Truong, Cindy van der Kreek, Jason Zheng and Nathanael Moore
- Junior Colourists:
- Asher Moore, Jemimah Moore, Seth Moore and Shiloh Moore
- Editing:
- Narissa Amies and Nathanael Moore
- Colour Correction:
- Ray Pilley
- VFX:
- Julian Ellerton
- Supervisor:
- Leila Honari
- Special Thanks:
- Leila Honari, Peter Moyes and Paul Mason
- In the Stars
- Format: 3D Animation
- 3D animated hybrid film created in partnership with Griffith Film School. A family’s joyful life is snatched away when a tragedy strikes, throwing them into a cold reality. Lost and bewildered, they must embark on a journey into the unknown, where they discover the enduring power of love and the magnitude of life. A heartfelt story inspired by the true events of a real family.
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- Writer/Director:
- Samantha Zaleski
- Producer:
- Yoel Hill
- Composer:
- Matt England
- Sound:
- Leighanna Robinson and Patrick Kirkman
- Concept Artists:
- Samantha Zaleski, Patrick French, Renee Doley Hard, Yaseen Yusuf, James Huen
- Modelers:
- Alexandra Minks, Renee Doley Hard, Yaseen Yusuf
- Riggers:
- Yaseen Yusuf, Kiara Hankinson
- Animation:
- Alexandra Minks, Kiara Hankinson, Renee Doley Hard, Ashleigh Djokic, Zachary Coad, James Huen and Yoel Hill
- VFX Artists:
- Ellen Clark, Yaseen Yusuf, Kiara Hankinson and Alexandra Minks
- Lighting Artists:
- Ellen Clark, Zachary Coad, Yaseen Yusuf, Renee Doley Hard, Alexandra Minks and Yoel Hill
- Editor and Compositor:
- Yoel Hill
- Reference Footage Actors:
- Nikita Khromykh, Connor Lowe, Joyce Mekonnen, Samantha Zaleski, Patrick French, Yoel Hill
- Pre-Production Development:
- Samantha Zaleski, Patrick French, Alexandra Minks, Ellen Clark, James Gunn, Kiara Hankinson, Patrick French, Renee Hard, Yaseen Yusuf, Zachary Coad, Malcom Mackellar and Yoel Hill
- Fragile
- Format: 2D Animation
- Fragile follows Aufungus, a gluttonous being with an obsessive need to consume the appealing fungi that makes up his world. During an attempt to reach a particular fungi, Aufungus is consequently injected with a body consuming fungal infection. Continuing his rampage, the infection begins to take over from the inside out. In his last desperate attempt to consume, Aufungus turns to himself, leading to his downfall.
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- Writer/Director:
- Michelle Nish
- Producer/Lead Animation:
- Kyle Lovan
- Storyboard:
- Felicity Haworth, Michelle Nish and Kyle Lovan
- Art Director:
- Felicity Haworth
- Concept Development:
- Michelle Nish, Felicity Haworth, Isabella Laman
- Background Artists:
- Felicity Haworth, Nathaneal Moore and Ray Pilley
- Sound Design:
- Mitchell Toft
- Post/Editing:
- Michelle Nish and Kyle Lovan
- Animators:
- Michelle Nish, Kyle Lovan, Andrew Michael Tyshing, CIndy van der Kreek, Julen Goni, Felicity Haworth, Joyce Mekonnen, Elise Rowan, Ashley Spivey, Skye Matheson, Matthew Chan, Corey Morgan, Courtney Spence and Ellen Clark
- Supervisors:
- Zeynep Akcay, Peter Moyes, Paul Mason and Leila Honari
- Mechropair
- Format: 3D Animation
- Seemingly normal on the outside, Mechropair is far from your regular local antiques and repair store. The technology within the shop is far detached from the current world, strange pulsating lights spill through the windows at all hours, and its owner Beatrice hasn’t aged a day since they opened the store over 100 years ago. When a broken new-age smartphone is mistakenly delivered to her door, it may be more than our self-proclaimed mechromancer can handle.
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- Writer/Director/Editor:
- Julian Ellerton
- Producer/ Art Director/ Production Supervisor:
- May Ringdahl
- Supervising Animator:
- Kiara Hankinson
- Sound Design:
- Julian Ellerton and Ash Spivey
- Story Artists:
- Julian Ellerton, Ellen Clark and May Ringdahl
- Motion Capture Model:
- Kiara Hankinson
- Motion Capture Artists:
- Kiara Hankinson, Julian Ellerton, May Ringdahl, Chloe Morris
- Animation:
- Ellen Clark, Kiara Hankinson and Zachary Coad
- Modeling and Shading:
- Chloe Morris, Adelle Roberts, Coearn Chich, Shona Robinson, John Black, Ziyal Wilton-Hawkins
- Visual Effects:
- Julian Ellerton, Zachary Coad, May Ringdahl
- Lighting and Rendering Supervisor:
- May Ringdahl
- Lighting Team:
- Chloe Morris and Ziyal Wilton-Hawkins
- Character and Concept Design:
- May Ringdahl
- Lead Layout Artist:
- Ziyal Wilton-Hawkins
- Layout Artists:
- May Ringdahl, Ellen Clark
- Editors:
- Julian Ellerton, May Ringdahl
- Camera Supervisor:
- Julian Ellerton
- Sound Design:
- Ash Spivey, Julian Ellerton
- Bloom
- Format: Visual Novel
- One afternoon in bed, a young woman falls asleep and wakes up unexpectedly in an abstract infinite void - within her own psyche - with the shocking discovery of a hole in her chest. Inside is a five- petalled flower. When the wind steals the five petals from her, she gives chase to recover them. She experiences the journey of loss and the challenge of letting go.
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- Writer, Director, Producer:
- Caz Kimber
- Art Director & Lead Animator:
- Courtney Hooper
- Executive Producers:
- Christy Dena, Peter Moyes and Sue Swinburne
- Animators:
- Courtney Hooper, Aidan Poljuha, Aljohn Salceda, Kyle Lovan and Michelle Nish
- Still Artists:
- Rosie Murrel and Narissa Amies
- Background Artists:
- Felicity Haworth and Isabella Laman
- Concept Art & Character Design:
- Kyle Lovan
- Storyboard Artists:
- Julian Ellerton and Yo’el Hill
- Sound Designer:
- Chloe Mctaggart
- Sound Designer:
- Chloe Mctaggart
- Sound Recordist:
- Jess Neumann
- Composer:
- Hone Reihana-Tuke
- BTS:
- Jovan Stojanovski
- Poster Designer:
- David Ballin
- In the Drink
- Format: 2D Animation
- A storm ravages in the open ocean, overwhelming a 1970s cruise liner with its destructive deluge. Tony, the ship’s unsociable bartender, is cast away on a cooler box stocked with alcohol. To tide over his impending doom, Tony mixes himself a Pink Lady cocktail. Then lightning strikes his cocktail shaker. Tony drops the mixer, and an electrified pink liquor pools into the brine...
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- Like a bubble from a witch’s brew, a blush mermaid emerges from the spill. Gin, a flirt and a carouser, offers to help the bartender home in exchange for ice cold spirits. With danger on the rise, Tony must learn to reconcile his introversion if he’s to return to shore.
- Writer/Director:
- Ashley Henry
- Production Manager:
- Shona Robinson
- Storyboard Artists:
- Ashley Henry and Ellen Clark
- Concept Artists:
- Ashley Henry and Laila Schmidinger
- Animators/Colourists:
- Ashley Henry, Joy Kao, Lada Andersson, Courtney Hooper, Shona Robinson, Cindy van der Kreek, Kyle Lovan, Michelle Nish, James Gunn, Elise Rowan
- Sound Design:
- Benjamin Gusenga
- Music:
- Jordan Maxwell
- Voice Actors:
- Benjamin Gusenga and Jess Neumann
- Entwined
- Format: 360 degree video
- Step into a reality that shows you how all things are entwined with one another. Experience the life of an old tree, as you sit peacefully in an ideal landscape. The surroundings provide you with everything you need, water, sunlight and fresh air. There is harmony and balance... But this balance is being tipped out of your favour. The perfect scene is short circuiting... Your world is being rewired... how will you survive?
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- Director/Writer:
- Anne Morrison
- Producer:
- Charmaine Leong
- Art Direction:
- Anne Morrison, Ashleigh Spivey and Coearn Chich
- 3D Modelers/Animators:
- John Black, Anne Morrison, Charmaine Leong and Coearn Chich
- Sound Design (Pre-Production):
- Joy Kao and Ashleigh Spivey
- Sound Design (Production):
- Rory Fowler, Jorja Dimopolus and Tae Young
- VFX (Production):
- Charmaine Leong and Coearn Chich
- Compositor (Pre-Production) :
- May Ringdahl
- Compositor (Post-Production):
- Charmaine Leong and Coearn Chich
2019 Games Design productions
- Hardhat Hustle
- Hardhat Hustle is a party game filled with crazy construction, tons of explosions, and plenty of opportunities to destroy your friends in the race to be crowned best in the business, the ultimate construction king.
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- Game Design and Programming
- Riley Holzwart
- Concept Artist, UI Artist and Texture Artist
- Sophie Nixon
- 3D Modelling and Sound Design
- Marcus Nixon
- Additional Music Design
- Lachlan Grant
- Hubbard & Hoffman
- Doug Hubbard, struggling private investigator and veteran psychonaut, is called to aid police in investigating a possible homicide. Through a unique blend of psychedelic visions and clever induction, the detective must uncover the truth in this neo-noir, first person, mystery game.
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- Creative Director, Writer, Programmer, 3D Artist, Level Designer, VFX Artist, and Sound Designer
- Riley Hearn
- Voice Acting
- Carlos Trebilcock, Laura Cave and Riley Hearn
- Special Thanks
- Olexiy Telyakov and Sarajayne Hughes
- I Wish I Could
- “If you could change the past... would you? What if what you wanted to change will occur regardless?” This is the story of one man trying to save his wife from a car crash by returning to the past and preventing the crash by any means.
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- Producer and Lead Programmer
- Rattakris Paeratakul
- Lead Scriptwriter and Story Artist
- Michael Nguyen
- Environment and UI Designer
- Adam Higgins
- In Another Life
- In Another Life is the story of Gertrude, a disgruntled teen who manages to vex everyone in her life with her sharp tongue and self-centred attitude. However, when her foolish actions lead to the endangerment of those close to her, Gertrude must decide to either change her actions, or be stuck in her own purgatory loop forever until she can make the right decisions.
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- Character Animations
- Dillon Boundy
- Programmer
- Max Campbell
- Project Lead, Writer, and Character Design
- Lydia Carthew
- Environment Design and Animations
- Chantel Rook
- Kiwi Kaleidoscope
- Magical farming game in which a girl named Kiwi is transported into a wondrous environment by a Wizard and must build a life together. Look after crops, meet magical animals who are all too happy to peddle your goods, and be on the lookout for devious pests!
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- Technical Lead and Programmer
- Olexiy Telyakov
- Project Lead and Designer
- Sarajayne Hughes
- Additional Programming and Designer
- Tumi Sveinn Snorrason
- 2D/Texture Artist
- Rachael Grimmett and Sarajayne Hughes
- 3D Artist
- Tumi Sveinn Snorrason and Zoe Scott
- The Devil's Abyss
- Descend from the dusk-bound gutters of Limbo through the neon metro of Hell, a sleepless cityscape fractured by its traitorous lords and tortured citizens. Carve through the denizens of a divided underworld, and learn what it is to be the Devil’s right hand.
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- Pit demonic steel against augmented flesh in The Devil’s Abyss, a hand painted 2D combat platformer in the vein of Hollow Night and Castlevania. Fall deeper into the cyberpunk slums of afterlife as an agent of the Devil King, meting out a demon’s justice on the horrors of the underworld and their tyrannical masters. Traverse the skyscrapers and rain-slicked sumps of a city that has felt neither the touch of the sun, or a merciful master.
- Technical Artist and Designer
- Edward Honey
- Programmer
- David McClatchey
- Lead Artist and Animator
- Dion Scott
- Concept Writer
- Sean Kimble
- Voice Actor
- Yassine Succarie
- Music
- Oska Zervoudakis
- The Girl with the Kitsune Husband
- Join Sakura, an orphan girl, on a journey through the Japanese Underworld as she talks, questions and completes puzzles to escape from the Yokai who wish ill intentions on her.
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- Game Designer, Writer, and Environment Art
- Caitlyn Drewett
- Programming
- Joshua Harvey
- Lead Animator, Character and Concept Art, and UI Artist
- Marco Galdamez
- Music
- Hayden Drewett and Lachlan Grant
2019 Honours productions
- Hellscape
- A child and dog must rekindle their friendship and work together to survive in the zombie apocalypse.
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- Film
- Iona Murray
- Music
- Finley Miller
- Hilda
- A pair of women venture into the rainforest of early 20th century Australia, armed with an unwieldy plate camera in the search for wild orchids.
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- Felix Cehak
- In Our Valley of Flowers
- In Our Valley of Flowers follows a young woman’s cycle of helplessness to her surroundings. She repeatedly finds herself waking in a vast valley of flowers, where she struggles against the gradual disfigurement to the her surroundings, sense of self, and mental realm.
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- Director, Producer, Story and Concept, Animation, Backgrounds, Clean Up, Colour, and Compositing
- Joyce Mekonnen
- Sound
- Ethyne Wesley
- Supervisor
- Leila Honari
- Meet Paige
- The Meet Paige project was an interactive multimedia experience hosted by Griffith Film School during the Griffith University Open Day event in August 2019. Conceived and directed by honours student Maria Zelenskaya, the project utilised motion capture technology and real-time rendering to bring to life a digital character, Paige...
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- Controlled by a performer, Narelle Vella, Paige greeted visitors to the Queensland College of Art and Design campus, engaging them with helpful advice about the college and directing them to various attractions. The technical implementation featured some innovative elements, such as using an iPhone camera for capturing facial animation.
- Director
- Maria Zelenskaya
- Performer
- Narelle Vella
- Director of Photography
- Joanne Tindale
- Project Supervisor
- Louise Harvey
- Technical Support
- James Stafford and Curtis Sullivan
- Ode
- Ode, a small nostalgic robot is sent to repair an experimental space station that has quarantined its helmet-wearing inhabitants. An overdose of toxic communications has corrupted its internal systems and is slowly killing them. Ode must repair the station before the inhabitants expire.
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- Created by
- Ana Walker
- Composer
- Brett Murden
- Sugar, Spice and Stereotypes
- An animated documentary that explores the legacy of girls cartoons, featuring the anecdotes of four subjects who were interviewed about their experience watching girls cartoons as a child. Through their stories we learn about the intricacies of how gender is enforced as a child, and how girls shows both support and challenge our perception of the binary.
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- Film
- Xena Achilleos
- Colouring
- Quinn Segall
- Music
- Xena Achilleous
- Supervisor
- Zeynep Akcay
- Featuring
- Eri Garneau, Phoenix Qu, Rowan Zilman and Libby Finkle-Vern
- Tubetha
- If you’re looking for Tubetha – and you’re probably not - you’ll want to head down to Herb’s Tubes, Beugsvale’s best rare and niche tubing supply shop.
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- Tubetha works there five days a week, and on the weekends she’s nowhere to be found, except in front of the TV getting high and eating junk food. Everything’s about to change for her, as her enemies and frenemies (like her daughter) force her out of her angry shell and into the spotlight for the first time in almost a lifetime.
- Phoebe Reinthal
- Duel
- After being assigned a retainer against his wishes, Prince Jereck makes his newly appointed retainer feel unwelcome.
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- Art Director
- Kimberley Miller
- Familiar
- A young girl finds her day spiraling out of control after summoning a magical owl familiar that just won’t leave her alone.
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- Art Director and Editor
- Kimberley Miller
- Voice Actor
- Emily Mellifont
- Game: Oiram
- The game is an exploration of interactive narrative styles set on a derelict spaceship. The player is a robot activated by the ship's A.I. with objectives to complete. As the player moves through the ship, they will notice the ship is in bad condition and continues to get worse as they proceed. The A.I. is completely oblivious to the fact that it is a ghost ship. The player has to make up their own mind about what might have happened on the ship.
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- Michael Hannan
- Comic: Drekinn og Töframaðurinn
- Drekinn og Töframaðurinn (The Dragon and the Wizard) is a working concept of an Icelandic Folktale to explore comic visual adaptation for cultural education. This project was created to understand and contribution towards research into pictorial communication to create a universally appealing and accessible media without the reliance of technological aid.
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- Rye Elms