Act3animation, or Act3 for short, is an Australian CGI company, specialising in character animation, based in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1992 by current creative director, Mike Hollands, Act3 has produced various TVCs, FMVs and short films.
History
After being founded in 1992, Act3 produced TVCs and promotional shorts up until 1999 when they broke into the video game industry with an E3 promotional cinematic for Blue Tongue Entertainment's Starship Troopers (2000), which won the AEAF Award for Best Game Animation that year. Subsequent notable game cinematics include: Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis[1] (2003), RoadKill (2003), N.A.R.C., Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows (2005), Neverwinter Nights 2[2] (2006) and Fury (2007).
In 2005, Act3 made its short film debut with two films: Anaka,[3]