Animation allows storytellers to work in weightlessness, a space without limitations on creative potential. While projecting your idea from the page to the screen can feel like fighting the forces of gravity, you’ll find everything you need at Cosmic Dino to step through your launch sequence.
Just think of us as creative HQ for your next mission. Need help developing that spark of inspiration into a shiny new screenplay? Looking for guidance mapping art and storyboards to guide your project’s ascent? Or maybe modelling assets that propel 2D sketches into the next dimension, or lighting and compositing all the elements to elevate things from ‘OK’ to ‘out of this world’? We’re ready to deploy the boosters on your project!
Set within Brisbane’s vibrant West End, our newly expanded 1,500 m² (16,100 ft²) space is designed from the ground up to fuel creativity, collaboration, and cinematic excellence.
Our private 30‑seat 4K + HDR cinema is the kind of place where frames come alive – and teams stay aligned. From rough cuts to final QC, this immersive screening suite ensures storytelling is reviewed in all its visual richness.
A collection of thoughtfully designed edit and review rooms—each equipped with cinematic colour‑grading tools, high‑res playback and comfortable workstations. These suites empower our editorial artists to iterate, refine, and collaborate without friction.
At the heart of the studio is an expansive open‑plan office space designed for cross‑department synergies: directors, artists, producers, and storytellers working shoulder‑to‑shoulder in an environment that thrives on dialogue and idea sharing.
Need an idea adapted into a screenplay? Don’t have a director attached for your project? No worries! Our mega-talented team includes multiple members with screenwriting and directorial credits on major cinematic releases.
Software: Final Draft
Cosmic content starts with building new worlds from the ground up and the sketching out the characters that inhabit them. From initial conceptualisation through to creating colour scripts, matte paintings, and set extensions, our artistic team work with you to get the stylistic language for a successful project.
Software: Adobe Photoshop
Script? Check. Characters and environments? Check. OK, time to map this thing out. Working together with the story department, you’ll see the action organised onto storyboards.
Software: Storyboard Pro
Using our flash new storyboards, sketches are sequenced into timelines through animatic editing, accompanied by scratch voice tracks, giving valuable insights into pacing.
Software: Adobe Premiere
Here’s where we flesh out your characters, props, and settings. After modelling the characters, texturing and surfacing is applied, hair/fur groomed, and rigging set up to guide character movement. Looking sharp!
Software: Autodesk Maya, ZBrush, Adobe Substance Painter, Yeti (Peregrine Labs)
Time to get things moving! As the name suggests, this is a crucial phase. Our animation experts conjure keyframes to bring your characters and their world to life, complementing the unique nuances of your cast’s vocal performances. From wide shot crowd scenes to extreme facial close-ups, we lovingly craft every movement to advance the narrative and convey emotion.
Software: Autodesk Maya, Toom Boom Harmony
Let’s shed some light on the situation… Our artists know their LRC from A to Z – illuminating scenes to create awe-inspiring atmospherics, ensuring the moody blues and warmer hues are consistently on point, and compositing all the various elements into a cohesive and compelling product.
Software: Autodesk Maya, ZBrush, Adobe Substance Painter, Yeti (Peregrine Labs)
Think of these guys as the behind-the-scenes superstars wrangling and moving assets and shots between departments. Throwing code, scripts, and python (not the snake btw) at problems before they arise to ensure a seamless production.
Software: Visual Studio Code
Need help with more than the pixels? You can leverage our know-how and proven track record for producing high-quality animations for screens of all sizes with our project-based and production consulting services.
With our local team of bona fide Queensland residents, your production expenditure is eligible for not one but two government subsidy schemes (federal and state). Bottom line – you can receive up to 45% in tax rebates back when you work with us.
Refundable tax offset on Qualifying Australian Production Expenditure (QAPE).
Available for animation, post, digital and visual effects (PDV) production for film or TV.
No sunset clause.
Additional state government grant.
Can be used in conjunction with the Screen Australia PDV Offset.
Available for footloose projects – those with genuine interstate or international PDV destination alternatives.
No limit on total incentive amount.
