Auckland based Toybox Animation have joined 13CO for representation across Australia.
Toybox Animation are creators without borders, bringing characters, worlds and stories to life. Leaders in their ability to seamlessly blend post-production, animation and design with live-action to create attention grabbing motion-graphics, amazing character animation and complex photo-real visual effects.
Says Nanette Miles, executive producer, Toybox: “Animation is the storytelling medium that cuts across cultural, gender and socio-economic boundaries. Whether factual, dramatic or comedy, bringing animated characters, worlds and stories to life is what Toybox does best. Our work can be in your face or invisible and is always made with the audience in mind.”
13CO has signed emerging director Rhys Day. Day combines his exquisite visual and carefully art directed aesthetic with subtle rule breaking challenging the conventional. His ability to see new ways to excite our senses through his stunning visual journey and soundscape highway is refreshing and ins
13CO has signed director Lizzy Bailey for representation in Australia.
Bailey’s work is best described as narrative fiction. She creates work that is honest, warm, engaging and at times funny.
Described as a ‘curious creative at heart’ New Zealand born Bailey’s love for filmmaking began at a young age when she nominated herself the family documentarian, filming everything with the family’s Hi-8 video camera, from family holidays to her own short films. Bailey then studied Film at Canterbury University in NZ, before moving to Melbourne to attend VCA.
Bailey has directed commercials for brands such as Citibank, SPC, Origin, Solo, NAB, Barbie, Kellogg’s and Bonds. She won Best Female Director “Frothing Female Award” at Freshflix Festival and was a finalist for best comedy at Setting Sun Festival.