SMS is a creative partnership between husbands Samuel Leighton-Dore & Bradley Tennant.
Based on the Gold Coast, we produce art and animated stories with a focus on heart and humour.
ANIMATION (News)
“Screen Australia announces over $810,000 in development funding for 29 projects
Screen Australia has announced 23 feature films and six television dramas that will share in over $810,000 of story development funding. Among the funded projects is Willy, the latest animation series from Ludo Studio, the production company behind world-wide phenomenon Bluey…"
ART (News)
Exhibition: Looking Back There Were Signs Opens At Tweed Regional Gallery
“Gold Coast artist Samuel Leighton-Dore opens his solo exhibition Looking Back There Were Signs. The exhibition includes his signature ceramic works alongside animation, and explores his adult diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder, and the ways in which new diagnoses can recontextualise old ideas of self.”
SHORTS
SENSITIVE GYM BROS (2023)
SGB is an animated short about big beefy men discussing big scary feelings the only way they know how: through gym and weightlifting terminology. Speaking almost exclusively in tortured metaphor, our Aussie meatheads tenderize each other with unexpected earnestness and well-intentioned but often misguided advice.
