Imagineering Our Clients’ Imaginations — A Peek into the Big Kahuna Imagineering Workshop

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www.bki.com.au – Big Kahuna Imagineering makes cool shi… stuff. Models, Scale Replicas, Custom Builds, Props, Special Effects, TVCs, Character Suits, Creatures, Animatronics, Puppets, Experiential Marketing Tools… you imagine it, Big Kahuna imagineers it. Here’s a quick look at a few past projects that have come to fruition in our Sydney workshop and gone on to marketing stardom.
A few you may recognise like the Sensodyne Chill Test and Bankwest “Happy Banking” Characters but some you may have to stretch your memory to recall others like the pirate ships featured in a Mirinda TVC, interactive Toyota display and man-sized robot suit for Korean music video “Egg”.
Enjoy!

Lap 2 of Memory Lane

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We couldn’t believe we let our 10th birthday slip by without so much as nod, so we made sure to take some time to reflect on our birthday this year. HAPPY YEAR ELEVEN, EVERYONE! Here we go for lap 2 of Memory Lane!

ENGINEERING TALENT

BKI’s custom-designed water tower standing tall at the 2007 Big Day Out Festival

BKI’s Duracell Water Tower, 2005

Duracell Water Tower

This 6-metre tall beauty debuted at the 2005 Big Day Out Music Festival. With its ingenious portable design, the branded tower with 10 water stations kept festival-goers hydrated throughout the day-long event in the scorching summer heat. Perfectly positioned near the main arena and standing high above the masses, thousands would have had “Duracell” on their thirsty lips that day.

Besides hitting the demographic nail square on the head, the water tower was a functional dream because Big Kahuna designed it so that the huge unit could fold neatly down to sit on the back of a small truck for transportation. The client loved it so much, we re-branded it two years later for Bacardi Express.

More of Big Kahuna’s promo devices…

The fact that this 6m-tall water tower could fold down to fit on the back of a small truck made it very functional.

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“9.99”

From mammoth to miniature, Big Kahuna Imagineering developed several miniature camera devices that were truly mini-groundbreakers for the 2009 stop-motion animated feature film “9.99”. One of our such devices was an SLR digital still live video split that allowed the camera crew to see the movements of the stop-motion animation characters in real time as they were positioning before the next frame. This tiny little device averted the need for over-sized frame stores of digital, single-shot photos, making the filming process much smoother and economical for this adventurous, modern-day, Australian animation epic.

More of Big Kahuna’s technical devices…

BKI’s camera devices

Other past Big Kahuna projects…