creative sydney's behind the screens - presentation by sixty40

hello

show the montage dudes.

so that's all our work smashed together. some of the best stuff starts as experiments... puppets, stories, techniques, characters...

Here's an example of this in action... 

sydney artist on  warp records asked us to do a clip.

nice guy. gave us free range

we've always loved these flickering GIFS...

which were another way of doing this

then we thought...

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Imagine if she just came to life.

dancer3db.mov

so while we were choosing a song we did some tests...

show the tests on the DVD dudes

next: we knew the technique would work,but we needed a great performer 

so... we had the - technique- the performer- the song

but now we need the story...

enter the parasite

In Spinochordodes tellinii, which has grasshoppers as its vector, the infection acts on the grasshopper's brain and causes it to seek water and drown itself, thus returning the nematomorph to water. They are also remarkably able to survive the predation of their host, being able to wriggle out of the predator which has eaten the host cricket.

so we went out and shot the mother fucker

show the clip dudes

warning to epileptics: there are a lot of flashing images to

come