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Monkeystack provide innovative digital solutions and produce visual content that transform people’s perception and connection with physical spaces using creative wayfinding, spatial narrative and communication elements.
We provide services in XR (Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality) experience design and development, 2D and 3D animation, visualisation, gamification of content and app development to create immersive digital spaces, navigate users through spaces, bring stories and culture to life, augment playspaces and deliver important information.
Monkeystack were asked to produce a spatial narrative app experience with augmented reality (AR) that brought the work of contemporary First Nations artists to life for Illuminate Adelaide: South Australia’s premier winter event that brings together the best and boldest in art, music, technology and invention from around Australia and the world.
‘Project Space Botany’ is an educational interactive app-based game that Monkeystack produced for the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia as a program supported by the Department for Education.
Monkeystack produced a suite of engaging and educational interactive learning stations and games for the Marine Discovery Centre, the only coastal and marine educational facility for school-aged students and the broader community in South Australia.
Monkeystack produced a series of interactive virtual 360 tours for AnglicareSA, South Australia’s largest social services provider, designed to provide a familiarisation experience for children and their parents or guardians ahead of visiting their Children’s Contact Service facilities.
Each of the four Children’s Contact Service Centre virtual tours give young users agency to explore different spaces in full 360 and move between rooms in their own time via a web-browser or smartphone. The virtual tours are augmented with an easy to use navigation system, gamified elements and animation to bring the experience to life.
Monkeystack developed a digital experience app for the new Galkangu – Bendigo GovHub building, located in regional Victoria. Working in collaboration with Arterial Design, and co-creatively with the artists and Wartaka* (*Wartaka is a Djaara Working Group made up of Elders and knowledge holders from different clans), we created an engaging app that explains the building’s design features in detail.
Monkeystack were engaged by the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service to produce an impactful VR experience to accompany their health and wellbeing campaign, ‘the Koori Way’, previously known as ‘Boorais and Smoke Don’t Mix’ (Boorais meaning babies or children), dedicated to their vision of a community free from the harmful effects of smoking.
The City of Adelaide asked us to produce a festive AR experience as a fun, engaging and highly accessible single point of digital contact between Adelaide’s Christmas Festival and visitors to the City of Adelaide. We created a gamified AR experience trail across 14 City of Adelaide Christmas Festival locations that visitors to the city could easily download to see and play in Adelaide through festive-tinted glasses.
Winner Bronze – Augmented Reality at AEAF (Australian Effects & Animation Festival) Awards 2022.
Monkeystack produced two interactive projection-based installations for Light Creatures at Adelaide Zoo as a part of Illuminate Adelaide, inviting South Australia to experience nature in a new light. Curious Creatures and Feeding Frenzy were two of the six installations at home in Adelaide Zoo as part of a wider collaboration with giant glowing lanterns and winter warmer food and drink stalls, giving South Australians something to get out of the house and excited about over the winter.
As part of the Hedonism exhibit at MOD. (Museum of Discovery at the University of South Australia), Monkeystack produced F.A.B.L.E, an AR led experiential game about consent that visitors navigate via an app on their phone.
Monkeystack produced an AR experience app for the City of Adelaide’s Green Adelaide project to showcase their work as Adelaide’s first dedicated urban environmental specialist organisation.
Monkeystack created a ‘handcrafted’ illustrated history celebrating St Hallett, the Masters of the Barossa Shiraz, and their 70 Years of Shiraz milestone.
Monkeystack produced 2D animation for TVCs for Crowies Paints – Paint Like a Pro campaign with Brighter.
Monkeystack are honoured to have been a part of the South Australia Remembers Service and Sacrifice projections for Virtual War Memorial Australia.
We produced a 20-minute animated narrative that was projected onto the façade of one of SA’s most iconic buildings, the Anzac House at the Torrens Parade Grounds, from sunset – midnight across 11 evenings between 1st November – Remembrance Day for the people of Adelaide to visit, pay respects and remember.
Monkeystack were commissioned by 57 Films to produce a 360 Virtual Reality tour of Riverland Wine as part of a South Australian centric collaboration brought to life thanks to the Australian Government’s $50 million Export and Regional Wine Support Package, alongside key stakeholders including Wine Australia, Riverland Wine, University of Adelaide, Martins Brand House and 57 Films.
