Let it be great

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Sixty40 directed the winning pitch for the show The Gruen Transfer. With our friends at M&C Saatchi distracted with radiating glory, we hooked up with the trophy the next afternoon and took it on a wild rollercoaster of love. Congratulations to everyone involved in the spot which planned to bring Australia and New Zealand together [...]

It was Guy Verge Wallace with his mind-blowing stop-motion epic: Underdog: Dangerforce 6. The winner was announced at the opening night of the Sydney International Animation Festival (SIAF) at the University of Technology Sydney, on Friday 25th of September. More than 21 entries of consistently high quality, far exceeding expectations, were received from across Australia [...]

In the 2010 Create:Awards. Losing out only to the esteemed film version of “The Lost Thing”  by Sean Tan. Our stop motion wonders for TV1 continue to rake in glory.

Sixty40 creates commercial of selves watching commercial then films selves watching commercial

As some of you may know, Sixty40 has now been around for 10 amazing years of work. Amidst the many things we’re doing to celebrate is buying some ad time to put some art on TV during Dr. Phil. It’ll be screening between 12:15 and 12:20 this Friday the 3rd of September. Be sure to tune [...]

We are very proud to announce that amongst Sydney’s Design Heavyweights, Sixty40 has reigned supreme in the sold out Iron Designer contest held as part of Sydney Design Week. Against massive competition from Frost Design, Digital Eskimo our supreme ability to create magic out of nothing shone through. From the beginning, we knew what would [...]

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We’ve got two projects competing against each other in the Australian Effects and Animation Festival awards for Title Idents and Stings… whoops. Good luck TV1 and Foxtel. Find out more here.

By now you’ve all scoped the new site and watched the new reel and you’re scratching your heads wondering who did that tight Rick Ross remix. It comes courtesy of Seattle’s own Prince of Ballard and you can find more of his fresh blends and edits here…

We’re very happy to launch our new website and new reel. Hot new work, hot new look, hot philosophy: let it be great. http://www.sixty40.com

As part of Sydney Design Week, Matt and Mark will go head to head with other amazing Sydney Design companies in a high-intensity creative gladiatorial fun-fest called “iron designer”. Here’s a gallery of the Melbourne version and some general info Take note Digital Eskimo: YOU ARE DEAD!! Tickets to the event can be booked online [...]

Sixty40 brings in an Gold International Promax for our TV1 Summer campaign. Check out all the spots here. If that wasn’t enough, we then bring in 3 Silver International Promax’s for our Foxtel Winter Games spots. Check out those spots here. We’re very thankful to our clients for bringing us in on such awesome briefs. Both of [...]

Sixty40 were asked to be one of 10 curators who choose 10 creative movers and shakers to be saluted at the 10X10 project for Creative Sydney. We were amidst a big spread of creative superdudes including Margaret Pomeranz, Rob Hirst from Midnight Oil and the founders of Sass & Bide. Here’s who we selected and [...]

No, that’s us in the back. For the Zimmermann parade at Sydney Fashion Week we helped extend the catwalk into an infinite illuminated hall. The LED screen at the back was aligned to create a trompe l’oeil for the (many) cameras at the end.

AEtuts+ Tutorial “After Effects vs. Nuke” Sneak Peek from Phil Strahl on Vimeo. This is a bit of incredibly authentic emotion on a topic that’s close to our hearts. We salute you Phil Strahl

It’s all over. This is the greatest brief we’ve ever received.  Thanks Stephen, that is funny stuff.

We’re starting up an award to celebrate hot young animators working in all media and rewarding them with moola, mentorship and screening at the Sydney International Film Festival. Here’s the press release. With the second UTS: Sydney International Animation Festival set to launch in Sydney on 24 September 2010, emerging animators have a chance to [...]

The nice folk at Digital Media World took the time to summarise the production process we went through to make the TV1 idents. The article will appear in their latest issue but of course, it’s also online.

Apologies for the exclamation mark, but that’s major news! The Creative Hotshop awards identifies Australia’s most interesting/charming/innovative/coolest/sexiest production house of the year. We are very flattered to be included amongst the 3 finalists in the animation category.

Big ups to Motionographer,  Drawn and Boing Boing for sending some viewers the way of the TV1 Summer spots. You can tell when one of these blogs take an interest in your work: your internets go crazy.

We’ve just finished a series of stop motion idents for TV1 that featured objects coming to life to explore the quintessential Australian summer. The themes were Celebrations (which ticked off christmas and new years and general summer parties), The beach (which was about hot summer days, getting burnt, hot sand, cool water and summer fruit) [...]

By very well informed mashkulture.net. We are very proud, and sit amongst some clips we adore. Check out the company here

Battlestar has already been selected by and appeared in a variety of sweet film fests: The Holland animation film festival (HAFF), The Portable Film Festival (here), The Fantastic Planet Film Festival (here) to name a few. But in massive news, it has also been selected to appear in the very exclusive DotMov Festival out of [...]

…and Psycho Teddy is still out there, making an impact in the world. This is pretty amazing advance: someone is Vlogging their reaction to the video. It’d be good to play them both at once so you can see what she’s seeing, feel what she’s feeling. You certainly know what she’s thinking, because she’s saying [...]

Wooo! it’s been a while in the making but we just got our copy of the 15th anniversary IdN anthology. Our work is sandwiched between Shilo and Stardust, which is great company to keep, and on the enclosed dvd we have made a mind-blowing film which prophesises the not too far away future when pandas [...]

If you happen to be strolling down Burton St. Dalringhurst one of these nights you’ll notice 2 massive projections in the front garden of an old timey restaurant. The animations going at timelapse speed and represent a neglected space being reclaimed by nature. The projections run for 6 weeks and each week we release a [...]

As part of our on going strategy of putting characters everywhere, we’ve started a project of putting characters on top of poles around the neighbourhood. Keep an eye out for them.

Aug 20th from http://twitter.com/HillsJohnes Just saw the preview for James Cameron’s #Avatar… It looks gnarly, but I’ve seen 2D 3D done better -http://www.sixty40.com/battlestar

…on the Portable Film Festival website. People, get in their and vote your asses off for us. We’re catching up to the other people in Median Vote score (currently we’re at 4.32 the next film is at 4.61 or something). Vote early. Vote often. We might just win something. If we do we’ll split it with [...]

The Battlestar clip has been accepted into the Portable Film Festival which launches this Saturday. It will also be featured as one of the festival highlights on their site on Sunday which is excellent (and a great choice might we add). It is in the Music Video category and naturally we want to win as we [...]

A very sweet animation about love with a terrible warning. To find out more about the very accomplished Doctor Prawn, check out his blog. Thanks Ran Ran.

The “Throw us a Bone” campaign we worked on last year continnues its awards run winning a yellow pencil at last nights D & AD awards in London, taking out the mobile marketing category. Congrats to all involved. Check the work out here, and read about the awards here Update: Frankie also won a bronze [...]

Comments about “Battlestar” collected from around the web: “That’s blowing my brain to shreds…. Awesome clip & the remix really flips it from the original..Tasty! - http://www.juslikemusic.com/ “Ooh very nice. It’s like lenticular vision in 3d. Is this 4d? :O” –  http://gadgets.boingboing.net “From concept to execution, it’s impressive. And you know what? They just made me [...]

This Friday, May 29 at 8pm  Sixty40 will be talking at “Behind the Screens” at the MCA as part of the week long Creative Sydney festival, which celebrates the wealth and diversity of the city’s creative talents. Also speaking will be Host – Jay Katz (Mu-Meson Archives), Ian Cope (Rising Sun Pictures), Ben Briand and [...]

Holy Maceroni. Warp records have released our clip for the artist Harmonic 313 onto their main page to hype up the impending release of the amazing sounding single. The album, from which it comes is reviewed thus:  ” A head splintering masterpiece” – Dazed & Confused  “a brilliant re-wiring of post-rave sonics” - Q 4 ****  “Joins [...]

The ringtone inspired a film clip and that film clip has inspired someone, possibly in a strange way,  one million times. That deserves an exclamation mark, maybe two. It’s great to read the comments that are left on the youtube page, so check them out here. We really are touching some people out there in [...]

Long time friend of SIxty40, Doug Bayne, has just released this montage of excellence,  a top-notch entry into the category of  ”Pseudo-movie”.

In its first appearance of the award season, in a really tough international competition – ‘Throw us a Bone’ picked up a Bronze Lotus!! Thanks to the SDCH, Gen, Hannes, Moxi Sound and the hard working guys at M & C Saatchi. Read the story here… And here’s a link about the campaign here…

Sometimes when you release a child into the wild it goes and does something on its own that is exciting and scary. Good luck Psycho Teddy, good luck.

Anna burns invited us on to be the weekly guests on FBi’s “Out of the Box” weekly show, where creative types get to present the music that floats their boat. We got an hour which we filled with Muppets, Budos Band, Mudhoney and more. Thanks, Anna, we had a ball. If you missed it, then [...]

Here we perform live the haunting “Pandas who need people” in front of an adoring crowd. Or they were adoring to begin with anyway. Then they turned ugly.

just did an interview for graphica real. Hard-hitting facts from Matt and surrealistic musings from Mark. It’s a great read…

Sixty40 is shooting a new video clip for harmonic 313.  It’s a dance base clip using a steroscopic technique which will make your eyes pop out of your head. The dancer is the indubitable Andy Uprock. We’ve just finished shooting it and commencing the edit. Then we saw this. Which reminds you: it’s all in the performance [...]

The indubitable Dr. Prawn has released a film clip to welcome in 2009. He combines haunting insights with a groove reminiscent of late night Neil Young sessions.

Next in the series of fresh signs to illuminate the multi-use park out the front of our office is the double-faced Dan. Paying homage to one of our super-ninjas, Dan. Take that drifters.  

The “Throw us a bone” campaign for Sydney Dogs and Cat’s Home launched Yesterday. Sixty40 created the worlds most endearing dog to encourage people to contribute money to the dogs home charity via their mobile phone. Generous tourists and drunk office workers have been texting the 9m screen at Customs House in Circular Quay to [...]

Thanks to David Hughes from Kind Permission who was visiting from London. Made us a sweet new sign that was hoisted in the pouring rain.

Roosters Film The hype film we made for the home games of the roosters has been selected to show in the Holland Film Festival. I wonder if they’ll like it as much as 15000 screaming football fans?

Sixty40 is helping judge this competition for iRiver. Apparently one submits ones animation/motion graphics or song and if one wins, one gets to be the official video of their new player plus tour the country in one’s own balloon. Or something. Check out their site to find out what exactly is going on. Some time [...]

We were at the shoot for a new show we’re doing the show packaging and identity for Disney’s “Alpha Breaks”. It’s great to walk into a place and see your logo made real, not just real but with flashing lights. This brings to 2 the amount of times that has happened to us. The other [...]

here is a shot of Nash Edgerton and our muppet, chillin’ and discussin’ the film industry, whilst we were filming our haunting new promo film for SPAA Fringe.

The cat is fully out of the bag, and hunting children in the park. This photo is from an expose in the Daily Telegraph about the apparent outrage of political correctness that forced Psycho Teddy to turn into the “vanilla” DJ Tedy Z.  Best quote of the article from the organisation that promotes fair representation [...]

Our old sign was a picture of the front of the building with the same sign on it, created a mental vortex of recursiveness. Our new one is a specimen jar full of pickled turtles called “Glass Half Full”. Hope the locals have taken their meds.

Our model wears the Teddy Z head (with remote controlled eyelid controls) at Sony, about to show the full complete suit to the Australian staff.

woah, dudes. real life teenagers making fan videos of our stuff. good on them. good on everybody. go internet.

We’re not quite sure if the irony of this will come off just right, but you may notice this image as one of our rotating images on our proper website. We would like to say, that in no way do we condone the use of cats to LOL.

Trying to get Frankie to focus long enough to draw her. For upcoming animated dog project. Stay tuned…

The campaign has begun. Bus Shelters, News papers, online and big TV coverage for the Super Toy Sale creative. All of the toys in the spot were custom designed because we couldn’t use real products. There’s a lot of love in them, especially the MonkeyRider. Enjoy.