digital studios pty ltd. industry entertainment visual effects animation founded 1995 headquarters richmond melbourne australia key people john francis website surrealworld.com.au surreal world is a digital visual effects and animation studio based in melbourne australia . it was founded in 1995 as the creative studio of award winning melbourne artist composer animator and filmmaker john francis . from beginnings creating short films such as the award winning animated canine in tug wilson and the cycling elephants in baby elephants day out work for clients followed with music clips and visual effects and animation for tv commercials and feature films . surreal world operates a visual effects and animation services facility for the film television advertising and corporate industries and an entertainment production studio developing a slate of entertainment projects ranging from movies to graphic novels . surreal world has created visual effects and animation for many theatrically released feature films such as the cup 2011 directed by simon wincer and starring stephen curry and brendan gleeson kath and kimderella 2012 directed by ted emery the turning 2013 and recent tv productions gallipoli from above 2012 nowhere boys 2013 and wentworth series 2 2013 14 . the studio is currently creating visual effects for the feature films menkoff method 2014 directed by david parker and starring noah taylor and paper planes 2014 directed by robert connolly and starring sam worthington . external links edit official website this article about a film studio is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title surreal world & oldid 647218406 categories visual effects companiescompanies established in 1995companies based in melbournefilm studio stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 february 2015 at 08 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view