We are a digital content house specialising in creative development, production, virtual production and multi-platform storytelling.
With Hollywood experience in a boutique commercial package, we produce work across feature film, television, web series, games, and digital. We offer full service production capability, with knowledge and expertise spanning the entire creative process - from development and production, all the way through post production.
No matter what project or platform, at the end of the day, we can always sit back and proudly say that we made a thing.
Jeremy Kelly-Bakker
Creative Director
Jeremy is a filmmaker, visual effects artist and director at We Made a Thing studios. His visual effects work has contributed to several major studio franchises, including Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Prometheus, Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
As a director, Jeremy has a number of short films under his belt, including The Way, which premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2018. Previous to that, he directed 3 foreign-language short films in China, winning Best Director at the Wenzhou Micro-Film Festival. Jeremy also co-created and directed the series Lucy & DiC which received over 4 million views.
Jeremy gets a buzz out of teaching engaged and talented young visual effects artists. He regularly lectures for the University of South Australia and the education arm of Rising Sun Pictures.
We Made a Thing Studios recently moved into virtual production with short film Coffee and Quasars utilizing this new technology. This piece was shot entirely on cutting edge LED wall technology using UnReal Engine.
Tom Phillips
Creative Director
Tom is an award winning writer and producer. In 2017 he wrote and produced Lucy and DiC, a proof of concept short film that reached 1.5 million views online. Following this success and with the support of Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) and the Adelaide Film Festival, Tom wrote and produced Lucy and DiC Season 1. The series released online and has surpassed 4 million views. Nominated for Best Online Series at the 2019 SPA Awards, Tom won Best Screenplay and Best Web Series at the 2019 SASAs with Lucy and DiC.
In December 2017 Tom wrote and produced The Way, a proof of concept short that was funded through the SAFC and premiered at the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival. He game/narrative designed Box Knight a video game funded by the SAFC, and most recently, finished Coffee & Quasars - a sci-fi first of it's kind virtual production utilising the Unreal Engine.
Tom was announced as one of the Screen Producers Australia Ones to Watch in 2018, and is currently developing a slate of projects under the We Made a Thing Studios banner.