you imagine

we imagineer

About Us

Big Kahuna Imagineering is a multidisciplinary team of designers, artists and fabrication specialists dedicated to providing unique creative solutions to the Advertising, Marketing, Media, Event, Art & Entertainment Industries.

We collaborate with cutting edge creative directors and production specialists, from agencies and brands direct, government and private enterprise, to translate fantastic creative ideas onto the ground.

With over 20 years design/build experience, Big Kahuna Imagineering is proud of its reputation as the company known to deliver project executions, extraordinary by nature and quality.

Our work has enabled our clients to attract and engage audiences at immersive levels.

Our customers trust Big Kahuna to realise their ideas.  We take on difficult challenges and imagineer a complete solution.

You imagine… We imagineer.

What We Do

The term “Imagineering” describes what Big Kahuna does – it engineers  imaginations.

Big Kahuna Imagineering generates unique ideas with our creative partners and then brings these imaginative ideas to fruition. Through practical and unique resolutions, we deliver custom creative solutions for a myriad of end uses. Prototyping, architectural, event, marketing, film/television, advertising and arts industries.

You Imagine…We Imagineer

    • Immersive branded experiences
    • Branded POS and feature product displays
    • Roadshow asset production
    • Branded vehicle modifcations
    • Experiential event concepts
    • Sampling campaign mechanisms/assets
    • Exhibition stand features
    • Branded in-store displays
    • Branded pop up displays
    • 3D logo production
    • 3D signage

    BRAND ASSET PRODUCTION

    • Proximity activated logic control
    • Reactive automated logic control
    • Human powered machine displays
    • Mechanical Amusements - Adrenalin generators!
    • 3D simulation interfacing (Oculus Rift, AR, Show control etc)
    • Remote control devices

    MECHANICAL INTERACTIVES & DISPLAYS

    • Concept development
    • Pattern making
    • Mould making
    • Laminating and Casting
    • Freehand sculpture
    • Machining
    • CAD/CAM
    • Installation and implementation
    • Production services for artists
    • Engineered public installations
    • Logistics

    ART PRODUCTION & INSTALLATIONS

    • TVC and Film
    • Events and festivals
    • Theatre and stage show effects
    • Integration with show control
    • Radio controlled/remote telemetry
    • Miniatures
    • Prosthetics
    • In camera visual effects
    • Hand and stunt props
    • Lighting and rig effects
    • Animals and Creatures
    • Puppetry

    SPECIAL FX & ANIMATRONICS

    • Super scale visual impact models
    • Scale replicas (both large and small)
    • High fidelity models for TVC/Film/Print
    • Product Prototyping
    • Medical Prototyping
    • Creatures and character suits

    LARGE & SCALE PROPS / MODELS

How We Do It

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to collaborate creatively with our clients from initial project conception.  By listening carefully to our clients’ briefs and creative direction, we plan, prove, and perfect our fabrications.

We thrive on a challenge, are not being afraid to take on never-been-done-before projects, and we won’t compromise on quality to stay in our comfort zone.

What sets Big Kahuna apart is our extra-ordinary attention to detail, our ability to find unique solutions and inject true invention as required.

We are original. We invent. We test. We deliver.

Big Kahuna’s ‘in-house’ production facilities can accommodate the fabrication of a range of projects.
We work with an extremely broad range of materials and production methods utilising modern and classical technical effects solutions.

The range of creative techniques we use is in-line with the diverse requirements of our clients.

 

Our Work

  • All
  • Art & Installations
  • Large Scale Props and Models
  • Stunts
  • Brand Assets
  • Art & Installations
  • Set Pieces / SPFX
  • Mechanical Interactives
  • Super-Sized models

Team

Big Kahuna Imagineering was founded by Will Colhoun in 2000.

Having come from backgrounds in Design, SPFX, TV & Film, Industrial Design, Advertising and Events, members of the Big Kahuna team have decades of combined experience all round Creative FX solutions.  Will leads this team of imagineers, designers, artisans, and fabricators to consistently strive for excellence in delivering ‘on point’ realisations of creative concepts.

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