Karoo Origins
Credits:
Client: Karoo Origins: the Fossil Centre
2025
Producer: Dianne Makings
Creative Director: Colin Payne
Illustration, concept art and storyboarding : Jeani Varty
2D animation services: Goon Valley
Additional concept art and storyboarding: Archie Birch
There were two main concepts we wanted to explore in these videos.
First was the the connection between time and geology. How rocks are essentially the record of time on planet earth and how minerlised fossils shape that story.
The second was extinction events. We wanted to explore how the earth has recovered more than five times from the brink of disaster. The stories of creatures who had to adapt in order to survive. And that climate change drove all these extinctions.
We're currently living through the globes sixth extinction event. Time will tell how we adapt to harsher climates.
Links:
designing the Permian Waterhole animation
