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Greg McKee has a wide background history of zoology and industrial design/engineering, marine technology and illustration. Greg’s family produced the worlds first production wakeboard, and pioneered planing step-hull sailing craft in the late 1970s and early 80s. Greg also studied the biomechanics of animal flight at university. He constructed mechanical birds which could fly and maneuvre using natural wing movements rather than flaps and ailerons .

As a qualified industrial designer Greg developed head-up display computerised scuba diving equipment in the mid 1980s displayed around the world at dive expos by the Tabata corp.

He designed popular exhibitions for Australian bicentenial projects such as Expo 88 and FS88, wrote and co-illustrated a children’s book “Echidna Airways, the great Wungle Bungle aerial expedition”, developed hundreds of animatronic creatures and special effects for theme parks and projects such as Babe 1 and 2, The Matrix, Farscape, Peter Pan, numerous TV adverts, StarWars Episode lll Revenge of the Sith, Nim’s Island and Killers in Eden.

Greg has developed computer based systems for controlling and programming robotic facial animation and playback of lip synch dialog on animatronic character heads. Greg’s 3D computer animation featured in the ABC documentary “Killers in Eden”, a true story of Killer Whales in 19th century Australia which he has researched in detail for over 15 years. He has recently structured crowds and conceived, storyboarded and developed the Killer whale - Orca action sequence for “Happy Feet” .

Most recently he has animated great white sharks, makos and bottlenose dolphins for the documentary “Saved by Dophins”.

Presently he is working on a number of marine themed documentaries and feature films including Killers of Eden, and also researching a feature film of the life of Hanna Reitsch, WW2 female test pilot.