As 14-year-olds, in 1996, PRA founders Eddie White, James Calvert & Hugh Nguyen began experimenting with a Super 8 film camera under the name of ‘Dabble Animation’.
Animator and sculptor Brodie McCrossin joined in 2000, and producer Sam White in 2002, and the company was officially formed in 2003.
The company received their first government grant for a stop motion TV pilot and computer animation for a music video in the same year.
White and Ari Gibson of the PRA directed the short film The Cat Piano, with narration by Australian artist Nick Cave.
The PRA subsequently made two short films, I Was A Teenage Butterfly and The Ghastly Gourmet Cooking Show.