Melbourne Museum - Our Wondrous Planet
We won a tender to work on a major new anchor gallery at the Melbourne Museum.
With a lifespan of 15 years and a projected 10 million visitors over this time, this was a high profile project with an important core message and themes of shaping a positive future for our diverse planet.
The exhibition focuses on immersive environments to represent natural ecosystems, and our role in developing the multimedia was to deliver a call to action: how can you make a difference to the future of our planet? Most of the pieces we built were interactive, to resonate more deeply with the audience.
We were responsible for the world-building animals, using large scale abstract animations to support the feeling of movement and flow throughout the space. We built most of these characters as 3D models to allow us the freedom to animate them easily, and to make them feel as real as possible.
Given the permanent nature of the exhibition, it was important the media style was timeless. We spent a long time in character exploration as part of our pre production process, finding a style that evoked the animals we were representing in an artistic way that would stand the test of time.
The show features over 700 objects from state collections, and the range of hyper realistic taxidermy through to the interpretative artistic pieces offers a glimpse of our wondrous planet at all angles.
We sought to evoke a feeling rather than a literal representation of nature. It was important that the gallery felt like a living space, with environments seamlessly flowing from one habitat to another, and with gestural animals inviting visitors to follow as they glide across the walls.
This was a special project, and it was surreal to see our work in a tangible way on the walls of such an iconic Melbourne space. See Behind the Scenes