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’ve created.

Experiential Projects Reel

We like to build things. We love projects that exist outside the screen. It’s where we can truly connect the digital world to the physical one, and watching people react to a physical build on the spot is instant gratification for everyone. This reel collects some of our favourites, from …

Chet Faker: Talk Is Cheap

Our ARIA-nominated video for Talk Is Cheap by Chet Faker. One of the best things we ever did as Toby And Pete. Faux stop motion, makeup FX, compositing, even 3D printing, and a whole lot of ice went into this one. We almost flooded the studio. Read the full case study → Credits Direction: Toby And …

MENULOG LAST ORDER

Menulog Last Order, with Thinkerbell. Read the full case study → Credits Client: Menulog Agency: Thinkerbell ECD: Sesh Moodley CD: Jack Burton

CBA CyberSecurity

A microchip city where CommBank’s security team hunts down fraudsters between giant processors and glowing data streams. Commonwealth Bank wanted to tell the story of its cyber security team at the hardware level. Director Daniel Askill brought in a treatment that was a Blade Runner …

Goodman Group - Wired For Change

An entire city built as a circuit board, with a key statement from the company embedded at its centre. Created for Yonder Creative as the hero animation for Goodman Group’s “Wired For Change” annual report. This was my attempt at a more maximalist, FUI-style piece, and a nice CGI …

Goodman Group: Change For The Future

Solar panels, electric cars, water towers and oh so many trees. Another instalment of animation for Goodman Group, in collaboration again with Yonder Creative, who created the “Change For The Future” theme for Goodman’s Sustainability Report. It formed part of Goodman’s …

Goodman Values Cube

A typographic piece introducing Goodman Group’s new brand values. A simple yet impactful execution for the commercial property group. The work was displayed on LED screens across multiple Goodman Group properties. This piece was accompanied by a custom template system that allowed the inhouse …

Illuminate Adelaide - Repast

Repast is a multisensory, interactive installation about memory and the fragility of the natural world. A cinematic film shot in South Australia sits alongside a mirrored digital environment. Built from 3D scanning and drone photogrammetry, the digital world continuously morphs the …

Klarna K-Rated - COSMETICS

Too hot for this time slot! For Klarna’s first Australian TV campaign, Thinkerbell censored the deals: products appear under modesty pixelation, too raunchy for daytime television, and viewers scan a QR code on screen to reveal them. I directed, with Heckler producing, and built a set of …

OnePlus Nord Gray Ash

A textural exploration designed to evoke touch. This was the global launch film for the special edition OnePlus Nord Gray Ash, a finely etched glass finish for the hugely popular Nord. Particle simulation echoes the raw, industrial feel of the ash colour and the matte texture, while staying out of …

OTHERLIFE title sequence

Time folded into an eye-drop: the title sequence for Ben C. Lucas’ sci-fi feature OtherLife, now on Netflix. The film, Ben’s second feature, centres on an experimental nanobot concoction that alters the mind, giving people the memory and full sensation of an experience, like a day of …

Pepperstone: Explainers

Nineteen trading lessons, told through fighter jets, oil platforms, supercars and David and Goliath. We were commissioned by UntilNow to build the world for Clear Space, a series of explainer videos for global online trading platform Pepperstone. Built in Unreal Engine 5, we delivered 19 animated …

SemiPermanent x Lexus

APERTURE: two tonnes of light, mirrors and steel, reflecting into infinity. A Toby And Pete project. Semi Permanent approached us to create an installation for the launch of the Lexus LC 500 coupe, as part of the Lexus “Hidden Artistry” exhibition at Semi Permanent at Carriageworks, …

Temple Of Joy

A colourful ode to Sydney’s dancefloors, inside Vivid House. Artist Elliott Routledge, aka Funskull, approached us to bring his artwork even more to life for Vivid Sydney. Temple Of Joy was one of three works in Vivid House at Darling Harbour, a 360° LED space billed as the most immersive …

The Goonlivet

Twelve-year-old single malt in a tactical bag-in-box deployment. Aka a goon sack. Together with our friends at Emotive, we made the launch film for The Goonlivet: The Glenlivet 12 Year Old in a 1.5-litre bag-in-box, complete with a gold tap. It was played completely straight, released as a limited …

Vice x HP Spectorium

A music and light space where the audience is the artist. A Toby And Pete installation, where design and code came together. Vice came to us to show off HP’s Spectre x360 touchscreen laptop, and with producer Race Banyon we built the HP Spectorium for Art Month Sydney. Three Spectre laptops …

Red Bull x Rufus: LaserWall

A fifth member of the band, made of light. A Toby And Pete project. Red Bull approached us to create something special for a national Rufus Du Sol tour. We’d wanted to use lasers for a long time, and this was the perfect opportunity. The brief was to create a fifth member of the band, so we …

Rufus Du Sol: Say A Prayer

An all-night shoot in Belanglo State Forest with Rufus Du Sol, a set of lasers, and a million funnel-web spiders. One of my favourites from the Toby And Pete laser era. Rufus Du Sol are simply the nicest lads in the music business, and this was another collaboration with the boys and another chance …

volume trails

Experiments with iridescence.

WISHING WELL

Make waves together. Wishing Well is an art installation about connection: a single body of water, shared by everyone who gathers around it. An array of laser beams is projected up through a glass-bottomed pool. Still water lets the beams pass clean and straight. The moment someone touches the …

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AIR ROUTES

A small world, mapped in Houdini. I wanted to play with some real-world data, so I downloaded a dataset of major air routes and airports from OpenFlights and crammed it all into Houdini. Starting at Cassidy Airport on Kiritimati in Kiribati, about as middle-of-the-Pacific as one can get, you can …

Charlelie Couture - l'amour au fond, 2014

A music video for veteran French artist Charlelie Couture, commissioned off the back of our video for Chet Faker. He loved the Chet video, and his only real direction was that he wanted something similar to the ice. I wrote the piece, and Toby and I enlisted our friend, feature director Ben Lucas, …

Rufus Du Sol Reel 2017

An exercise in restraint: minimalist show visuals for Rufus Du Sol. A Toby And Pete project. Simple shapes and motion take on a whole new quality when magnified to the size of a stage wall, so we treated the LED wall as a light source more than a content screen.

Air & Space Power Conference 2022

A VR/AR explainer for Plan Jericho, the Royal Australian Air Force’s technology disruptor, presented at the Air & Space Power Conference. I was part of a team assembled by Code On Canvas. In charge of all the 3D content, I worked with the team at Tilde Visual to deliver a lot of complex …

ANMM_BMPCC

Large-scale video projection onto the facade of the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. This prjoection was commissioned to let the Maritime Museum join in the Christmas festivites. A Toby And Pete project.

Flume Infinity Prism

The Infinity Prism: a 110kg box of light that became the face of Flume’s live show and toured the world three times. A Toby And Pete project. The prism was the centrepiece of the show, and initially our only commission. As Flume’s popularity exploded, Future Classic realised the show …

Flume Live Visuals Reel 2012/2013

The original visuals reel from the start of a three-year adventure with Flume. A Toby And Pete project. Blood, sweat and tears, but also a whole heap of fun. So many friends collaborated on this effort: nearly an hour of original content, produced within a few months. Often narrative-based, these …

Flume Visuals Reel 2015

One of the later chapters in our collaboration with Australian producer Flume: a new set of show visuals for his touring live show. A Toby And Pete project, and the continuation of the visual library that grew up around the Infinity Prism.

Interactive Art installation for Z by HP

An interactive art installation for Z by HP at Adobe Symposium, showing creative professionals what HP’s workstations can do in real time. Guests entering the stand could interact with an infinite torrent of particles representing the immense bandwidth that the HP Z series computers could …

Bahrain Telecom

Created whilst at Alt.VFX / TADA - this immersive, 360 VR video was created to help Bahrain Telecom showcase their vision of the future.

Mentos Fruit Fusions

Hyper-real and delicious: 3D fruit for the launch of Mentos Fruit Fusions. A fruity number for Mentos via AKQA Australia. I made the fruit for the end of this piece. The brief sat somewhere between hyper-real and delicious, all 3D and all colour, and the animation came with a set of high-res print …

THE REEL 2022

Here’s our latest reel. This one’s a bit nostalgic: a short trip down memory lane that starts with some Toby And Pete classics and leads through to some of our latest and greatest. Enjoy!

VIVID 2014: ReFill

Recycle something, and watch it join the light show. An installation created with Code On Canvas for Vivid Sydney, illustrating how much plastic recycling saves from landfill. When people dropped recyclables into our special bin, their item was added to the projection. Credits Created with: Code On …

The Reel 2017

A mix of things I’ve made, mostly under the Toby And Pete banner, where I was “Pete”. It’s getting a bit long in the tooth, but good times were had, and that’s what we like.