Snugglepot & Cuddlepie | Public Art Australia

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Snugglepot & Cuddlepie

Customs House, Vivid Sydney 2018

Collaborating Partners:

Destination New South Wales | Lucy Keeler (Public Art Australia) & Nick Tory (Ample Projects) | Northcott | The Cerebral Palsy Alliance

PRODUCTION PROCESS:

Video: Behind the scenes

Research

May Gibbs' Original Works

May Gibbs' Original Works

May Gibbs' Original Works

Characterisation, Colour & Movement

Little Ragged Blossom

Gumnut Taboggan

Little Obelia

Scene Layouts and Design

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Sound Design

Making lists of sounds in May Gibbs' studio at her house 'Nutcote' (different bird species, waves on the shore, dogs barking)

Making lists of sounds in May Gibbs' studio at her house 'Nutcote' (note the banksia tree at the bottom of her garden!)

Making lists of sounds in May Gibbs' studio at her house 'Nutcote' (her wireless radio, and the pianola!)

All sound effects are the voices of children, distorted and combined with real sounds to place the world of the show into a dreamlike child's world. Here are the four children who star in the show as the wind in the trees, bubbles, banksia men panting as they run, gumnut car horns, seagulls, kookaburras, cicadas, crickets, gumnut ship horns...and little ragged blossom singing in the shower.

Noni Hazlehurst reviewing her lines before recording the voice of May Gibbs

In the recording studio

Production Credits:

Direction: Lucy Keeler and Nicholas Tory

Sound Design: Miles Nicholas

Animation: Julian Reinhold, Oliver Abbott, Bonnie Forsyth, Tumen-Erdene Altangadas, Iva Coburn, Jelena Sinik, Nicolette Axiak, Alex Dray, Lester Chan, Erika Ju, Yori Narpati, Karen Etherington, Atticus Gough, Amy Bell, Bel Holborow, Will Thompson, Isabella Meagher, Sandra Ye, Genevieve Stewart, Kylie Kwok, Jeremy Cox and Erin Sutherland.

Voiceover: Noni Hazlehurst, Frank Cotton, Samantha Campbell, Orson Keeler and Alice Keeler.

A very special thank you to Deborah Szapiro and University of Technology Sydney - Bachelor of Design in Animation