Highly awarded mixed media director, Boca (Marcos Ceravolo)…
French animation director & illustrator of-the-moment, Skull (Frédérick Venet)…
..and the design-led director behind Myer’s magical Christmas rocket ship, Kyra Bartley.
Sixty40 has added three fresh and distinctive talents to help it achieve its aim of “driving execution further and pushing creative boundaries”.
Boca has just won a Craft Award at NYF and last year collected 3 Cannes Lions and 4 Promax BDA Latin America awards – Golds, Silvers and Bronzes – for Joaquim’s World for Fox Life:
Boca’s background in digital design and animation is evident in his work that is characterised by the use of mixed techniques – stop motion, live action, animation or visual effects – with plenty of attention to detail. He has worked globally for the last decade for major clients like Unilever, Carlsberg, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and Adobe.
Skull made his name known with his street art, while his career went from strength to strength in animation director and comic book illustration. His first major projects were French animated TV series, Mandarine & Cow and Gaston Lagaffe, before he seized the opportunity to move into commercials and music videos. He has since animated clips for Dizzee Rascal and French singer, Sebastien Tellier, and directed commercials for cell phone network Orange via Publicis.
With Sixty40, Skull has just finished directing an animated film for Newscorp:
And shortly after moving to Sydney, Boca and Skull partnered helped Air New Zealand to celebrate the moments when Mothers Really Shine with agency, Host.
Thousands of Sydneysiders flocked to see Kyra Bartley’s work over Christmas. The young director, already a rising star with a background in animation and art director, used her striking sense of design and her ability to work across live action, animation and stop motion, to create the magic that made Myer’s immersive Wonderland lift films the retail Christmas attraction of the year. Their intricately detailed wrap-around screens pushed the boundaries of experiential animation.
She followed that with a magnificent undertaking for Valentine’s Day, inviting artists, illustrators and animators from around the world to contribute to the creation of her collaborative animation project that celebrates the beauty of unconditional love.
And shortly before these, she directed a beautiful paper-craft spot with Sixty40 for Hungry Jacks:
Behind this amping up of Sixty40’s creative breadth and resource potential is executive creative director, Simon Robson.
Robson has taken over the local leadership from Sixty40 founder and creative director, Mark Simpson, who now heads up the L.A office. Robson intends to continue to develop the stable of talent and creativity at Sixty40 Sydney.
“Sixty40 started out as an animation studio and over the past 15 years has done some terrific work. We have now developed into a craft-based moving image house, combining artful live-action work with animation, stop motion and VFX,” Robson commented.
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