We are proud to announce that our work BioDream won a Special Merit award at the 2025 Australian Effects & Animation Festival in July. BioDream was a creative and artistic collaboration between 5 people - Julian Reinhold, Oliver Abbott, Bonnie Forsyth, Alex Dray and Nick Tory. Between February and April 2025 we designed and hand crafted our show, which is a tribute to our friend Jonathan Nix, and an exploration of the symbolism of water as a metaphor for grief, new growth and the flow of life in dreams.
Our friend Vivid Sydney festival director @gillminervini was especially supportive of our project and thank you to @technicaldirectioncompany and @melaniehorkan too.
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Working with my co artists on BioDream was so much fun.
Bonnie’s birds and clouds has been many people’s favourite part of our show. Oliver’s creative design of our opening sequence is so elegant, calming and pleasing to experience, and my very good friend Julian’s blooming psychadelic tulip and mangrove tree sequence is so so cool. Alex Dray’s soundtrack blew us all away and there were never any changes requested, he created a perfect voice for our show.
#ampleprojects #art #design #animation #vivid #vividsydney #mlccentre #cta #ctabuilding #commercialtravellersassociationbuilding #martinplace #biodream #ample #collaboration #dreamscape #3d #projection #tdc
Working with my co artists on BioDream was so much fun.
Bonnie’s birds and clouds has been many people’s favourite part of our show. Oliver’s creative design of our opening sequence is so elegant, calming and pleasing to experience, and my very good friend Julian’s blooming psychadelic tulip and mangrove tree sequence is so so cool. Alex Dray’s soundtrack blew us all away and there were never any changes requested, he created a perfect voice for our show.
#ampleprojects #art #design #animation #vivid #vividsydney #mlccentre #cta #ctabuilding #commercialtravellersassociationbuilding #martinplace #biodream #ample #collaboration #dreamscape #3d #projection #tdc
Working with my co artists on BioDream was so much fun.
Bonnie’s birds and clouds has been many people’s favourite part of our show. Oliver’s creative design of our opening sequence is so elegant, calming and pleasing to experience, and my very good friend Julian’s blooming psychadelic tulip and mangrove tree sequence is so so cool. Alex Dray’s soundtrack blew us all away and there were never any changes requested, he created a perfect voice for our show.
#ampleprojects #art #design #animation #vivid #vividsydney #mlccentre #cta #ctabuilding #commercialtravellersassociationbuilding #martinplace #biodream #ample #collaboration #dreamscape #3d #projection #tdc
Working with my co artists on BioDream was so much fun.
Bonnie’s birds and clouds has been many people’s favourite part of our show. Oliver’s creative design of our opening sequence is so elegant, calming and pleasing to experience, and my very good friend Julian’s blooming psychadelic tulip and mangrove tree sequence is so so cool. Alex Dray’s soundtrack blew us all away and there were never any changes requested, he created a perfect voice for our show.
#ampleprojects #art #design #animation #vivid #vividsydney #mlccentre #cta #ctabuilding #commercialtravellersassociationbuilding #martinplace #biodream #ample #collaboration #dreamscape #3d #projection #tdc
Working with my co artists on BioDream was so much fun.
Bonnie’s birds and clouds has been many people’s favourite part of our show. Oliver’s creative design of our opening sequence is so elegant, calming and pleasing to experience, and my very good friend Julian’s blooming psychadelic tulip and mangrove tree sequence is so so cool. Alex Dray’s soundtrack blew us all away and there were never any changes requested, he created a perfect voice for our show.
#ampleprojects #art #design #animation #vivid #vividsydney #mlccentre #cta #ctabuilding #commercialtravellersassociationbuilding #martinplace #biodream #ample #collaboration #dreamscape #3d #projection #tdc
Proud of our show for Vivid Sydney 2025 - BioDream
Special thank you to the team - an excellent group of art, design and animation collaborators who I have enjoyed working with for many years: Oliver Abbott, Bonnie Forsyth, Julian Reinhold and Alex Dray. This show has special significance for me, and it was a huge priveledge to be projecting on to the Commercial Travellers Association Building for the first time in 8 years. Thank you especially to Gill Minervini, and to Mel Horkan and the Vivid team for their support and encouragement.
CTA Building, Martin Place Vivid Sydney 2025
A meditation on the ephemeral nature of existence, the bridges between our subconscious and our waking life, BioDream is a psychedelic dreamscape inspired by human connection and the importance of friendship, nature and the symbolic meanings in water and immersion, and the extraordinary possibilities that exist in the process of rebirth and growth after significant loss.
The work is in part a tribute to our dear friend and collaborator, Jonathan Nix, who died at the end of 2023. It is a sad truth that the impact that a good person can have on your life is most profoundly felt when that person is gone. The feeling that they are no longer here can be overwhelming - in dreams, water can be an expression of this unfathomable experience and the imbalance and turbulence that we feel. Water can also be symbolic of a yearning for a simpler life, or a calming grounding feeling, or the beginning of something new.
BioDream seeks to express that we are lucky to experience connection with those who we care about, and while certain truths are inescapable, the process of new growth is inevitable.
BioDream was made by Nicholas Tory, Oliver Abbott, Bonnie Forsyth, Julian Reinhold and Alex Dray
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Our possums are back - Burwood’s Unity Place ❤️
“A warm breeze whispers through leafy drapes of ancient treetops. Below, my ancestors sit in dust. Their fire’s lessons held and passed as was done since the first dawn. Grey plumes spiral skyward, reaching up towards those who once warmed their spirit by this flame.
A small child breaks her gaze of embers, for she feels a presence loom. Yet fear doesn’t replace the comfort of the wise fire. It cradles her and pulls her closer. She has felt this before. She knows she is safe.
The wind’s whisper grows to a groan as her young eyes search for her visitor. Above, the wind lifts the veil of leaves for a moment. Two huge flame-filled eyes appear and greet my mother’s own. The veil rises once more. Fur stained of yellow ochre glows against the night sky is revealed. And there, nestled in the arms of the ancient tree, she knows it is Wilay and she knows she is home.”
– Nathan Peckham
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The beginning of our work BioDream for Vivid Sydney 2025. With very special thanks to Bonnie Forsyth, Oliver Abbott, Julian Reinhold and Alex Dray, whose superb work is in this show. The work is a dedication to our friend Jonathan Nix, who we lost at the end of 2023. Our inspiration for the work is the extraordinary possibilities that we find in friendship and creative collaboration. As a tiny droplet of water creates ever expanding ripples, our dreamscape expresses our grief and the inevitable rebirth that occurs afterwards. We miss you Jono ❤️ Thank you Gill and Mel Horkan for your support and encouragement xx #ampleprojects #art #design #animation #vivid #projection #projectionmapping
Proud to announce that Lifeblood will be returning to SBS on Demand in July 2025
‘A love letter to Bourke. An artistic masterpiece.’
- Short Films Matter
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We are also pleased to announce that our other animated film is also nominated for two awards at AEAF 2024 for Best Short Film and Best Education and Infographics ‘The Juggernaut of The Darling’ - An historical account of the inland river industry, based on Charle E.W. Bean’s two visits to the region in 1908 and 1909.
2D animation by Amy Bell @aimz_bell , 3D design and animation by Oliver Abbott @oliver_abbott , backgrounds and matte paintings by Dinh Nguyen @tdinh_art . Adapted, Directed, Produced, Edit, Art Direction, Storyboard and Composite by Nicholas Tory @nicholastory , additional shots composited by Jonathan Nix @jonathanpeternix ❤️ Sound design and Music by Alex Dray @alexdray .
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Proud of the design and animation team for ‘A Rough Shed’ - our Henry Lawson adaptation for Bourke Shire Council.
We are finalists in two categories of the Australian Effects and Animation Festival aeaf.tv - Best Short Film and Best Education & Infographics ❤️
@tdinh_art@aimz_bell@jelenism@nicqaxe@alexdray@nicholastory
#bourke #aroughshed #shed #art #museum #history #shortstory #poet #poetry #animation #australia #henrylawson #ampleprojects #ample #design #landscape
