Industry Games - Animation

Monkey Stack

• Adelaide Animation Studio
• Client based work
• Offer an in house course
• Work in 2D & 3D animation
• Because they're a rather small group, they would hire those with a varied amount of skills.

Vishus Productions

• Based in Adelaide
• Vishus Productions is a multifaceted studio, with a special focus on preproduction for animated film and television.
• They've created an animated TV series, an animated Music Video, an 8 minute animatine film and also made a animated game.

Industry Games - Effects

Rising Sun Pictures

• Based in Adelaide.
• They create visual effects for feature film, TV and transmedia clients.
• They offer a graduate course.

They look for people with skills in:

• Animating
• Texturing
• Modelling

Industry Sector - Serious Games & Simulation

Rheinmettal - Australian Simulation company

• Serious simulation company which mainly focuses on military equipment. 
• They do projects on pretty much anything military based.
• This can range from turret systems, to military trucks, "future soldiers," and all sorts of other military equipment.
• High Quality Develop

Holopoint

• A realistic simulation/games company.
• Founded by Ben Kilsby and Richad Taylor in 2007, it still stands as a 100% Australian owned company but has done international work.
• Alot of their work looks like simulations, scaling from 'T-cell growth in an alveolar", to flight deck hazards on a military flight deck. 
• Made some apps for the iOS app store which are more on the 'gamey' side.
• Quite high quality work

Industry Sector: Games

Oddgames

• Currently based in Adelaide
• Only released one game app called Monster Truck Destruction
• Currently don't offer any jobs.

Half Brick

• Based in Brisbane.
• They do multiple games on different platforms, from 2001 to 2014. They've made games from the PS2 to the iOS and Xbox One.
• Known for Fruit Ninja
• If you wanted to get a job there you should develop your skills in C++ as that is there programing language choice. They also use, Visual Studios and Apple's Xcode.

They would both have hired people for: 

• Marketing
• Texturing
• Modeling
• Sound
• Core Programming