Australian Space Agency x 33 Creative

We collaborated with 33 Creative to produce a range of animated elements for their client, The Australian Space Agency, to be exhibited at the Australian Pavilion during the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Japan (13 April – 13 October 2025).

Our 2D/3D animations were based off a bespoke commissioned artwork by our studio co-owner, Jake Duczynski (Gomeroi and Mandandanji), and which explored the celestial sky from a First Nations perspective.

We animated elements of Jake’s artwork, MAAL into three distinct loops, as well as one Acknowledgement of Country piece. Finally, we animated sections of MAAL across various live-action footage of Australia’s space industry at play. Ultimately, this hero video demonstrates how Australia is bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and futuristic technology, signalling the country’s growing influence and innovation within the international space community. The result is a captivating, majestic and vivid film which engages both western science and First Nation perspectives of space.

Watch the film and learn more about the expo HERE!

 

Development Process

MAAL Artwork by Jake Duczynski

 

Artwork Process 

Sketches

MAAL Artwork Symbol Sketches

Final Artwork Mock up

 

Asset Design

Symbol Designs

Connected Network Symbol

Ancestral Spirit/Shooting Star

Background Designs

Gawarrgay ‘Emu in the Sky’

Carved Trees

 

Implementation Process

Superimposing parts of the MAAL Artwork onto live action footage

 

Stills From Final Film

 

Credits

Communications Agency

33 Creative

Georgia Cordukes

Jake Keane

Production Agency

Studio Gilay

Director

Jake Duczynski (Gomeroi / Mandandanji)

Producer

Melissa Azizi

Artwork & Design

Jake Duczynski (Gomeroi / Mandandanji)

2D and 3D Animation

Paul Carlton

3D Modeling

Jalamara Towney (Wiradjuri)

Paul Carlton

3D Texturing

Zoë Velonas

Paul Carlton

Jalamara Towney (Wiradjuri)

Compositing

Paul Carlton