Category: character

Psycho Teddy reaches 1,000,000 Hits (!)

8 April, 2009 (10:21) | Animation, character, film clip | No comments

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 [...]

frankie wins a bronze lotus

20 March, 2009 (13:18) | Animation, character | No comments

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…

Dr. Prawn: Losing my religion

21 January, 2009 (08:13) | Animation, character, film clip, motion graphics | No comments

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.

Goodbye cruel sign

19 January, 2009 (15:37) | character | No comments

The last message in Sign form from Evan Newby, a fine animator who is moving his pencil on in the world. He was responsible for much of the hard drawing work in The Eduganda Panda show. We salute him.

united nations of cupco

3 December, 2008 (10:45) | character, other | No comments

Matt has a doll in Cupco’s upcoming group show, amongst a legion of your favourite artists. Opening’s on the 16th down at Damien Minton Gallery in Redfern. See you there, whooo! THE UNITED NATIONS OF CUPCO 100 international artists received a felt template of a Cupco Doll from Luke Temby/CUPCO. Come and see the 70 [...]

Throw us a bone

3 October, 2008 (09:07) | Animation, character, promo | No comments

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 [...]

SPAA Fringe Promo Film

5 September, 2008 (14:21) | character, other, promo | No comments

We’ve just finished the SPAA Fringe Festival 2008 promo film. It features a puppet, made by Sixty40, and in the likeness of Mark. 

“Spider Monkey”

20 August, 2008 (16:33) | character, other, promo | No comments

Sixty40 is in the middle of making a promo for the SPAA Fringe. In the film, the main character walks past a poster for a movie, the type of which he hates. That movie is “Spider Monkey”.

The Insanity Continues (we’re sorry)

20 August, 2008 (11:21) | Animation, character, film clip, television | No comments

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 [...]

Life Dream #625 – tick!

17 July, 2008 (14:05) | character | No comments

- Having a life size animatronic costume made of one of your characters. The bear formerly known as Psycho Teddy, has a new single coming out which we are animating at the moment. To launch the single and whip this nation into dancing hysteria he will be appearing at shopping centres around Australia in the [...]

The Formidable Doctor Prawn

10 July, 2008 (09:06) | character | No comments

Today marks the 7th birthday of one of Sixty40′s quiet achievers: Doctor Prawn. He has been answering medical and personal questions on his blog for all these years with the proud words: “As a Doctor and a Prawn”. God Bless you Doctor Prawn.