BENJAMIN ZAUGG

Writing/Directing/Camera/VFX/Animation

• Monkey Man - Feature (VFX)

• Kath and Kim: Our Effluent Life (Compositor)

• The Spooky Files - Kids Series (VFX)

• Bay of Fires - Drama (VFX)

• The Royal Hotel - Feature (Additional VFX)

• Finding X - Animated Special (Screen Aus/Youtube Skip-Ahead program) for Tibees (Director & Animator)

• Deadloch - Comedy Series (VFX)

• Bad Behaviour - Drama (VFX)

• MetaFauna - Animated Webseries Pilot (Writer/Director/Animator)

• Here Out West (2022) - Feature - SBS (VFX)

• Wakefield (2021) - ABC TV - Drama Series (VFX Supervisor & VFX)

• Robbie Hood (2019) - SBS (VFX)

• The Moth Effect - Amazon Sketch Series (Visual Effects)

• The Letdown - Season 2 - Comedy Series (VFX/ Supervisor)

• RFDS (2021) - Channel Seven (Titles animation/compositing)

• Daisy Quokka - Animated Feature for Like A Photon (credit sequence animation)

• Dom and Adrian: 2020 - STAN (Visual Effects)

• Content - ABC TV vertical video comedy-drama series (Post Supervisor & VFX)

• Beached Az - ‘Aziversary’ Series’ - Animated web series (Animator)

• C&K - The Creche & Kindergarten Association Limited : Ad Campaign Video (Director/Animator)

• Doodles : short-animation kids series for ABC (Director/Writer/Animator)

• Nekrotronic - Feature (pre-visualisation/temp effects & additional vfx)

• Soul Mates Season 2- ABC TV comedy series - 2016 (VFX Supervisor/VFX/Animation)

• The Legend of Monkey - Netflix TV series - (Additional VFX)

• Drawing Attention - Animated Talk Show Pilot - 2015 (Director/Producer/Host)

• Top of The Lake: China Girl - BBC UKTV - (Visual Effects)

• Soul Mates - ABC TV comedy series - 2014 (VFX Supervisor/VFX/Animation)

• No Activity - Stan Original Series - (Visual Effects)

• Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am - ABC TV comedy series - 2016 (VFX Supervisor/VFX)

• Maximum Choppage - ABC TV - Kung Fu Comedy - series - 2014 (visual effects)

• GetUp!: Higher Education Parody Ad (Animation)

• Tom & Ben's Singapore Sling - Channel 7 Travel Special - 2014 (title design & animation)

• McDonald's Crack's 1 Million Facebook Fans - 2014 (motion graphics & compositing)

• #7 Days Later - ABC2 TV comedy series - 2013 (post & vfx supervisor, animator, creative collaborator, secondary editing)

• The Breath of Freshness : 2013 (writer/director/vfx) : Commercial Spec

• "Get Your Hands Of It" : 2013 (animation): Music Video campaign for Transport for NSW

• Out of Sight, In Our Minds: 2013 (director/animator): GetUp! Australia

• Doodlesford - Television Pilot in development (director of animation)

• Immunity: 2013 - a component film from The Turning (camera operator): Circa Contemporary Circus

• Status Update: 2013 (cinematographer & collaborator): 5 min comedy short

• Neuron : 2011 (writer/director/vfx): 11min puzzle-thriller funded by the QPiX White Heat initiative.

• The Sexy Detectives : 2010 - current (cinematographer/collaborator): A Brisbane-based comedy group - video for theatre & the web

• Take-Me-Away : 2011 (writer/director/animator/puppeteer): A noodle-box comes to life in a 2 min musical puppet-animation hybrid.

• The Room : 2008 (writer/director/vfx): 9min graduate film - selected in festivals around the world.

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In 2019, with Ludo Studio, Benjamin planned the workflow, post supervised and provided VFX for Content (ABC TV) - the world's first scripted vertical-video comedy set on a phone - which included a (simulated!) live-streamed car crash and the detailed fabrication of the protagonists’ phone-interface throughout the series. More recently he planned, supervised and executed visual effects for the ABC’s The Letdown (S02) and Wakefield.  

Benjamin’s knowledge of rigging and scripting within After Effects has been been poured into animation projects, such as Doodles (ABC TV), an animated kids’ series that Benjamin co-wrote/shot/directed/animated with Ludo Studio, that brought kid-submitted drawings to life (and went on to win an International Emmy award). In 2019, Benjamin animated a re-boot of the cult-classic  Beached Az web-series, working closely with the original creators.

Benjamin has also provided loads of service-work, compositing, titles and effects for TV & Films, including The Legend of Monkey (S01), 2067 (upcoming), Go!, Top of the Lake (S02), Nekrotronic, No Activity (AU), Maximum Choppage, Over & Out - plus many ads. He’s also crafted his own fair share of short films and quirky videos about memory loss, time-travel, noodles and lost chewing-gum.

Hoodlum (VFX/camera/animation)

• HP Next Gen Campaign - Web documentary series (vfx & title design/animation) 2014

• Secrets & Lies - Television Series (vfx/supervision, titles & credits): Airs late 2013 on Channel 10.

• The Strange Calls - Television Series (timelapse & establisher footage): Planned, shot and processed timelapse sequences and footage used between scenes. ABC2 & iView.

• The Strange Calls - Television Series (all visual effects, titles & credits): Worked on over 200 shots across the 6 episodes - tracking, rotoscoping, keying and animating. On-set vfx supervision. Responsible for layout and design of all show credits and titles.

• The Strange Calls - Behind-The-Scenes aka "Onset" (camera/interviewer): Shot all interviews and on-set antics of actors, crew and show producers.

• The Strange Calls - online component (animation & titles) Created HTML5-compatible animations to garnish the website.

• Bourne: Legacy - Facebook/tumblr Treasure Hunt (titles & vfx)

• Bourne: Legacy - Operation Intel Mobile App (title & menu animations)

• Conspiracy 365 - online component (editing, titles & animation)

• Australia: The Time Traveller’s Guide - online component (flash animation)

• SLiDE – online graphic novel (flash animation)

• Dance Academy - ABC3 online component (compositing)

• Day X Exists - online component Sony Picture's SALT (vfx/editing/titles)

• BBC Knowledge Enigma (animation)

• Sleuth 101 Online - ABC1 online component (animation/compositing)

• Join the Mosaic - for ABC's (USA) Flash Forward (vfx/editing/pre-viz)

• Making of Modern Australia - website component (compositing/editing)

• Primeval Evolved - iTV online component (editing/titles/game cutscenes)