Over the past year we have been creating stop-motion animation for the upcoming television series Danger 5. It will be on SBS soon, but in the meantime, the trailer has been released on youtube. To catch a glimpse of our stop-motion dinosaurs and get a taste of this amazing new series, check out the link below. Stay tuned to our website for upcoming details of the series, and some behind the scenes of our work. The first episode can be seen on youtube November 21.
Watch Danger 5 Trailer here

We built a new camera rig and tested it out making a basketball video. It won the iiNet Backyard Basketball Hero Competition. It was screened during an NBL game on One HD and we won a bunch of cool prizes.
Watch the video here

Watch GooRoo 2010 Showreel here

Forget film festivals. Funniest home videos is where the real prize money is at. Mike finally put his film making skills to good use and made a classic video of his cat "Bruce" playing 8 ball. He picked up the weekly prize of $10,000.

Since Tropfest, Baboons has screened in about a dozen other festivals. Recently, it picked up a couple more awards. First was the Australian Teacher's of Media (ATOM) Awards, where it was nominated for Best Music Video and Best Animation. It took out Best Music Vid, so it was well worth the trip to Melbourne to attend the ceremony. Then we had some more success locally in November, taking out a gold award at the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) Awards for SA & WA. This qualifies the film for the national awards, also to be held in Adelaide next April. Meanwhile, it's been enjoying a good run in Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation touring around the world, and was also screened at the prestigious Ottawa International Animation Festival in October.

8 years after it was made, and 3 years after it was uploaded on youtube for all to see, our film Cows With Guns has reached 1 million views. The film seems to remain an audience favourite, despite the relatively dodgy animation we did back in high school. We put it down to the fact that it's just such a great song.

Click here to watch Cows With Guns on youtube.
Or to read more about the film click here.
For more info about songwriter Dana Lyons or to order a Cows With Guns T-Shirt go to www.cowswithguns.com

Now you can get your very own Baboons, Animal Instincts or GooRoo Animation t-shirts and caps. They're only $25 (+ postage & handling) through our Toctopus store.

Click here to browse and buy!

'My Neighbourhood has been overrun by Baboons' had a huge premiere on the 21st of February as part of Tropfest 2010. It was viewed by a massive crowd of 75,000ish at the domain in Sydney, and by many more all around Australia at the live venues and on TV.

We picked up 2nd Prize and Best Original Score went to The Dairy Brothers for writing the song. To read all about our experience in Sydney, click here. To watch Baboons and the other Tropfest films, click here.

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Our brand new film 'My Neighbourhood has been overrun by Baboons' has been selected as 1 of 16 to be part of Movie Extra Tropfest 2010. It is the biggest short film festival in the world, so if we win it, we are practically the best film makers in the world! Okay maybe not quite...yet. The event will be held on the 21st of Feb in Sydney and broadcast live to seven other sites in major cities around Australia as well as telecast live on Movie Extra channel. It is a free public event, so come along and cheers on Baboons! For more info check out the Tropfest website. The screening will be the film's premiere so we hope you enjoy it!

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Right now we're busily creating our next short film "My Neighbourhood has been overrun by Baboons". If you want to see how we do it, take a look at our behind the scenes production blog. It has loads of interesting info, pictures and videos from on set. Check it out!

Stop Motion Pro is a program we use to create our animation. It is made by another Aussie company, doing great things for the stop motion industry. We recently had an interview with them about our work and now have a profile on their website. Check it out!

We have just commenced shooting our new short film "My Neighbourhood has been overrun by Baboons". After months of pre-production, including making a whole gang of baboons and a huge neighbourhood set for them to wreak havoc on, we are now starting to bring them alive through the magic of stop-motion animation. The film is due to be finished by mid December with its premiere early in the new year. Stay tuned to the GooRoo website for more news and sneak peaks of what's to come.

We have just created a short clip for a new show "Tektime" coming soon to channel 7 in November. The clip will be played during the Guitar Hero episode. It features one of the baboon characters from our upcoming film "My Neighbourhood has been overrun by Baboons" dressed up as Slash and playing a crazy guitar solo recorded by Nick Cole. Check out the Tektime website. Details on the show will be available shortly.

GooRoo Animation have been selected as one of the two teams in this year's Animation Initiative run by the Media Resource Centre in Adelaide. We will be given funding and support to complete a short stop-motion animated film. The film will be based on the song "My Neighbourhood has been overrun by Baboons" by Adelaide band The Dairy Brothers. GooRoo Animation last worked together with The Dairy Brothers five years ago, creating a film clip to their song "Never gonna be a Star".