Creative Director / Lead Developer

Amber is an award-winning stop-motion animator, director, 3D artist, and performer with a critical focus on storytelling and exploring unique methods throughout her creative projects. After spending most of her life performing, directing, and choreographing for theatre, she decided to explore other creative avenues, hoping one day to delve into her love for animation and puppetry. She has spent the last decade working as a Senior Graphic Designer, Multimedia Artist, and Creative Producer across live events, in-house roles, and ad agencies for some of Australia’s biggest brands, while also lecturing in animation, games, and UI/UX design.

Amber completed her Master's in Animation, Game Design, and Interactivity at RMIT University, where she enjoyed combining her passion and skills from theatre with interactive and animated mediums. She has spoken and showcased her work at various festivals, conferences, and events both locally and internationally, including panelist talks at San Diego Comic Con and Melbourne International Games Week. She has been commissioned by Playable City Melbourne and most recently was the recipient of the 2024 British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies publication award for 'Best Essay by an Undergraduate or Master's Student' at their annual conference held at the University of Sussex, UK.

In 2024, she received Screen Australia's "Emerging Gamemakers Fund" to develop 'Bones: Wandering Soul'.ption

Lead Programmer

As a recent game dev graduate from SAE Institute, Melbourne, Kevin is a Melbourne based Junior Games Programmer with 3+ years of experience in game dev in both Unity and Unreal Engine. 

Kevin is blessed and excited at the opportunity to kickstart his career in the industry
as the new lead programmer for Studio Tinkerhaus in their current project Bones: Wandering Soul.

With his main inspirations being the Kingdom Hearts series and online multiplayer games such as Warcraft3, DOTA2, CS2 etc, he is looking forward to achieving his goal in the industry by leaving his mark whether it be through programming game mechanics or creating compelling game worlds. 

When not on the computer developing games, he is still on the computer playing games. Other hobbies include playing basketball, graphic design and video editing.

Lead Level Designer / VFX

Lachlan is a junior level designer, game designer, and 3-D generalist who loves telling stories through games. A recent graduate from SAE University College with his Bachelor of Game Development and Design, he is eager to make his mark within the industry.

His passion for creating immersive and intricate game worlds is inspired by titles like Satisfactory and Subnautica. Lachlan's analytical mindset and keen attention to detail enable him to craft engaging player experiences and one day hopes to achieve excellence within the indie development community.

When not making or playing games, he likes to work out at the gym, watch anime, or spend time with friends and family.

3D Animator

Yee Hui is an award-winning filmmaker, stop-motion and 3D animator. She enjoys bringing joy to her audiences by engaging them in her imaginative worlds through her films. While designing the different shots of her film, she loves to explore creative ways to make it more fun and interesting. Her short films ‘Of Coconuts and Flowers’ (2020) and ‘Who Killed Cock Robin?’ (2022) have won awards and been screened in multiple countries.  After graduating from RMIT, she decided to help out Amber with her film ’Stan and Sven’ (2022). Stop-motion is a different animation form than 3D and manoeuvring puppets in real life is a lot of unexpected fun for her. The film has a successful run in film festivals with the biggest hit being the screening at San Diego Comic Con.

Yee Hui also works in the game industry. She is currently working on three projects: ‘Trash’ by Bin Chicken Studios, ‘Call of the Golden Valley’ by O’Saurus Studios, and ‘Bones: Wandering Soul’ by Studio Tinkerhaus. Up until now, a couple of her projects have been exhibited at ACMI WIP night, PAX and GCAP local lounge. It is very inspiring for her to observe the audience when they are playing the game as she will then be able to take in those feedback and further improve her work.

Yee Hui also occasionally ventures into the projection mapping realm. Her first project ‘The Sea’ (2017) was created during her degree time in the University of Kent, UK. It was selected to participate in The Waves Exhibition held by the EDA school of the University of Kent and the ADM school of Nanyang Technological University. Her second project ‘Welcome to the Isle of Design’ (2021) has won her The Best Animation award at The Isle of Design, an international projection mapping competition. She loves exploring storytelling on big canvases and hopes to tinker with it more in the future.

All in all, Yee Hui is a creative person who just loves storytelling and she can’t wait to bring your story to life.

Senior Technical Director - Rigging

Robbie is a Melbourne based senior rigging TD with more than a decade's worth of experience working around the world. Previously specialising in film, he has rigged hero characters on large scale productions including Shazam, Mortal Kombat and Borderlands. He has recently switched to freelance work with a primary focus on games.

When he isn’t busy tinkering away on Bones with us, he can be found working internationally with companies like Wildflower Interactive and Blizzard Entertainment through Superseed Studios, as well as locally with Melbourne's Beethoven & Dinosaur
for their upcoming game Mixtape.

He builds and maintains his own Maya-based rigging framework, which he uses in his freelance work.

Narrative Design / Writer

Denise is an emerging author and the writer of the award-winning children’s story Stan & Sven: A Plan to Help Stan. This story was adapted into a stop-motion animation short film in collaboration with Amber Stacey and Yee Hui Wong, and it is now being developed into a children’s storybook. A noteworthy accomplishment was securing an invitation to speak at the esteemed San Diego Comic-Con International as a professional artist for the San Diego International Children’s Film Festival, alongside the director Amber. The animated adaptation garnered remarkable success, achieving acclaim both locally and internationally, with accolades for both the animation and storyline. Across nearly 30 film festival selections and awards, the animation has traveled around the world, reaching esteemed festivals and locations such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival, Children’s Film Festival Seattle, Atlanta Children’s Film Festival, San Diego International Children’s Film Festival, and Animovies at the Festival of Animated Objects. One notable highlight, including a screening at a family event on the outside of a grain elevator in Canada before the screening of The NeverEnding Story.

Denise is also the writer and illustrator of the published novelty book Sultan T. Sloth: One Sloth’s Journey Through COVID-19, her debut story which was a lighthearted reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic. She helped workshop the narrative design for Bones: Wandering Soul in the early stages of conceptual development, a project she is excited to see becoming a reality and help develop further.

Denise is eager to share the book of ‘Stan and Sven: A Plan to Help Stan’ with everyone soon and is hard at work planning her new and upcoming projects, including a stop-motion web series that is in the early pre-production stages.

Composer

Kent Ross is a seasoned Australian composer, conductor, and Musical Director with nearly two decades of experience in scoring, teaching and conducting music. Originally from Shepparton, Victoria, he began piano and vocal lessons at age 16, and by age 20 was conducting his first theatre show; leading him to pursue a lifelong career in music.

Currently, Ross is the Chief Conductor of the Casey Philharmonic Orchestra and the Engineering Music Society Orchestra of Melbourne University. He continues to focus on composing and directing new and exciting musical experiences for audiences and musicians across Australia, bringing his unique energy and passion for music to every project.