A Year In Craft
A peek Inside the Nexus Studios Workshop.
This year, we’re opening the Nexus Studios workshop doors to share a glimpse of the craft behind the work — the characters, worlds and techniques our directors and artists brought to life.
App O’Clock
For Telstra, Director Laurie Rowan brought Colin the cuckoo to life — a tiny feathered diva with razor-sharp comic timing and exquisitely awkward body language. Sculpted with a stop-motion sensibility using CG precision, every detail designed to amplify his charm (and his grumpiness).
Playgrounds In Motion Titles
Led by Creative Director Erwin van den IJssel, our Design team built a kinetic, infinite-zoom title sequence blending 2D, 3D and illustration — from cel-animated musical notation to illustrated woodland foxes — stitched together with a free-jazz score improvised live to picture.
Milk Can Help
Our 2D team joined forces with directorial collective WERE and agency GALE to unleash anime-inspired bursts of chaos for MilkPEP. Bold posing, explosive FX, dramatic reversals and lovingly exaggerated tropes collide in a high-energy celebration of the genre.
World of Hope
For Humane World for Animals, director Johnny Kelly crafted a tender stop-motion film using cruelty-free materials — handmade puppets and meticulous details — brought together with an LED volume stage for seamless scene shifts.
Candy Crush x Thundercat: Upside Down
With director Fx Goby, we flipped traditional filmmaking on its head — creating the worlds first playable live-action music video that blends performance, gameplay and music into a single interactive experience.
Together Builds Better
Finally, we reunited with director Johnny Kelly to create a tactile stop-motion film for Telstra celebrating human connection and collaboration — miniature worlds shaped in real time with animators’ hands left in frame, backed by an original score by Casey Wescott (Fleet Foxes) performed by Dave McCormack (Bluey).
