THE FRIENDSLIKE.CO REEL
Hello Friends, It’s the Friendslike.co reel! It’s always nice to look back and take stock of all that we created.
Experiential Projects Reel
Friendslike.co likes to build things. We love projects that exist outside the screen, it is where we can truly connect the digital world to the virtual one. The projects in this reel are some of our favorites - from Flume, Rufus, Semipermanent and more.
Chet Faker: Talk Is Cheap
Here be the best thing we ever did as Toby And Pete… ok, one of the better ones :) Our ARIA nominated video for Talk Is Cheap by Chet Faker. DIRECTION: Toby And Pete DoP: Dan Freene ACS Makeup: Margo Regan Styling: Rebecca Riegger Everything else: Toby And Pete
MENULOG LAST ORDER
Menulog Last Order. Agency: Thinkerbell ECD: Sesh Moodley CD: Jack Burton
CBA CyberSecurity
This was a fun one! I got to flex my design muscles on this spot directed by Daniel Askill. From vehicle design to the entire city layout - I got to shape this cyberpunk film and watch the VFX masters of Alt VFX put it all together. Creative Agency: M&C Saatchi Client: CommBank Production …
Goodman Group - Wired For Change
Created for Yonder Creative. This was my attempt at a more maximalist / FUI style animation. A nice CGI challenge - creating an entire city like circuit board in only a few weeks. Bit of Houdini magic, bit of compositing but mostly flying around. CD: Benjamin Gay / Julie Faktor Account Director: …
Goodman Group: Change For The Future
Launching another installment of animation for @Goodman_Group. In collaboration again with Yonder Creative, who worked to create the “CHANGE FOR THE FUTURE” theme for Goodman’s latest Sustainability Report, here we see solar panels, electric cars, water towers and oh so many trees. This …
Goodman Values Cube
Typography piece for the Goodman Group Agency: Yonder Creative Director: Benjamin Gay
Illuminate Adelaide - Repast
Repast is a sensory interactive experience that explores the interconnectedness of nature and memory, inviting audiences to question their perceptual evaluation of the world. A cinematic film shot in South Australia juxtaposes the natural world with a mirrored digital environment. Rendered using …
Klarna K-Rated - COSMETICS
Too hot for this time slot..! Klarna is coming to Australia with deals that are too hot to show. The team at Thinkerbell came up with an idea that would have audiences scanning a QR code on their screens to reveal the K-Rated deal. I assembled a team to build these ‘very Klarna’ …
Klarna K-Rated - HOUSEHOLD
Too hot for this time slot..! Klarna is coming to Australia with deals that are too hot to show. The team at Thinkerbell came up with an idea that would have audiences scanning a QR code on their screens to reveal the K-Rated deal. I assembled a team to build these ‘very Klarna’ …
Klarna K-Rated - SHOES
Too hot for this time slot..! Klarna is coming to Australia with deals that are too hot to show. The team at Thinkerbell came up with an idea that would have audiences scanning a QR code on their screens to reveal the K-Rated deal. I assembled a team to build these ‘very Klarna’ …
Klarna K-Rated - SODA STREAM
Too hot for this time slot..! Klarna is coming to Australia with deals that are too hot to show. The team at Thinkerbell came up with an idea that would have audiences scanning a QR code on their screens to reveal the K-Rated deal. I assembled a team to build these ‘very Klarna’ …
OnePlus Nord Gray Ash
A textural exploration designed to evoke tactile sensations. This animation was the launch video for the special edition OnePlus Nord: Grey Ash finish - a finely etched glass option for the hugely popular OnePlus Nord. This project came to me via the good folks at Heckler.tv at the request of Steve …
OTHERLIFE title sequence
Designed and directed for Ben Lucas’ feature film Otherlife - available on Netflix The sci-fi film centers around an experimental nano-bot concotion that alters the mind giving people the memory and full sensation of an experience like a day of snowboarding within a matter of seconds. Time …
Pepperstone: Explainers
We were commissioned by UntilNow to create 19 animations that would serve as backdrops and supporting visuals for a series of explainer videos for Peppersone, a fintech company providing online trading. Created in Unreal 5, we delivered almost an hour of content for UntilNow to augment with motion …
SemiPermanent x Lexus
An installation for SemiPemanent x Lexus 2017 Music by George Nicholas
Temple Of Joy
Artist Elliott Routledge, otherwise known as Funskull approached us to help bring his artwork to even more life for Sydney’s celebrated VIVID Festival in 2022. We worked closely with Elliott, his brother and art director Marty and brother and composer Nick A.K.A. Nicky Nighttime to create a …
The Goonlivet
Hello Friends! This is one for the history books. Together with our friends at @emotiveagency we created this short film to launch Goonlivet! A 12 year old single malt in a tactical bag-in-box deployment. This product went live on April 1st, marking a new month and a new milestone. Client: Pernod …
Vice x HP Specrorium
A Toby And Pete installation Design and Code coming together.
Red Bull x Rufus: LaserWall
A Toby And Pete Project. Using two high powered laser projectors we created a light based structure to tour Australia with local legends Rufus Du Sol. Coordinated with the lighting design provided by ColourBlind productions.
Rufus Du Sol: Say A Prayer
One of my favorites from the Toby And Pete laser era. An all-night shoot in Belanglo State Forest with Rufus Du Sol… and a million funnel web spiders. Good times.
volume trails
experiments with iridescence
WISHING WELL
Installation concept consisting of a water pool pierced by a laser array. Making waves is reciprocated by the lasers via refraction, an inherently collaborative process. Make waves together.
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AIR ROUTES
I thought I’d play around with some real world data here so I downloaded a major air routes and airports dataset from OpenFlight and crammed it all into Houdini. Starting at Cassidy Airport on the Kiribati Islands which are about as middle of the Pacific as one can get, we can get half way …
Charlelie Couture - l'amour au fond, 2014
Hot off the back of our music video for Chet Faker we got this commission from veteran French artist Charlelie Couture. He really liked the Chet video and his only direction was really that he wanted something similar to the ice. I wrote this piece and Toby and I enlisted our friend Ben Lucas to …
Rufus Du Sol Reel 2017
A Toby And Pete Project. Back in 2017 we designed this minimalist set of visuals for Aussie legends Rufus Du Sol. Simple shapes and motion take on a whole new quality when magnified to the size of a stage wall. This was an exercise in restraint, treating the LED wall as a light source more than …
Air & Space Power Conference 2022
I was part of a team assembled by Code on Canvas to produce a VR/AR explainer for Plan Jericho, an Australian Air Force technology disruptor. In charge of all the 3d content I worked with the guys at Tilde Visual to deliver a lot of complex information in a very compact piece.
ANMM_BMPCC
Video projection onto the Australian National Maritime Museum. Toby And Pete Studio 2017.
Flume Infinity Prism
A Toby And Pete Project. The Infinity Prism was a device that came to represent Australian Grammy and ARIA award winning artist Flume for the first three years of his stellar career. This object has toured the world three times and was seen by thousands of music fans. For us, it was a pivotal …
Flume Live Visuals Reel 2012/2013
A Toby And Pete Project. The original visuals reel we produced at the start of a three year adventure. Blood, sweat and tears but also a whole heap of fun. So many friends collaborated on this epic effort - nearly an hour of original content was produced within a few months.
HP Spectorium
A multi user interactive installation to showcase the HP Spectre touchscreen laptop. Users were able to interact with one of several HP Spectre laptops to alter the visuals and create an audio track from stems provided by NZ producer Race Banyon.
Flume Visuals Reel 2015
A Toby And Pete Project. Feels like a century ago - this is one of the latter sets of visuals from our collaboration with Australian producer extraordinaire Flume. 2015 tour
Interactive Art installation for Z by HP
HP x Adobe Symposium
2022
Here’s our latest reel - this one is a bit nostalgic, a short trip down memory lane starting with some Toby And Pete classics leads down to some of our latest and greatest! Enjoy!
Bahrain Telecom
Mentos Fruit Fusions
I made some fruit for the end of this piece! The brief was hyper-real but still delicious. The animation also came with some high res print renders too.
VIVID 2014: ReFill
An installation created with Code On Canvas for VIVID 2014. The concept was to illustrate how much plastic is saved from landfill by recycling. By placing recyclables into our special bin the audience was rewarded by contributing their item to the projection.
The Reel 2017
Here’s a mix of things I have done. Getting a bit long in the tooth but good times were had and that’s what we like. Mostly under the Toby And Pete studio where I was “Pete”.