Mantis shrimp deserve your cosplay efforts too! THANK YOU SO MUCH TO WETA WORKSHOP! I can't believe I got to make this project with you all and how kind and welcoming you were during my stay in New Zealand. ☕️🦐

Get a Business Mantis Shrimp shirt here: https://teespring.com/stores/simone-giertz-store

What type of short film should I make with the Business Mantis Shrimp, AKA Gary Giertz? Leave your ideas in the comments so that I can harvest them all.

Thanks to the people at Weta Workshop who helped make the Business Mantis Shrimp:

🦐 Richard Taylor & Tania Rodger, Weta Workshop Cofounders
🦐 Christian Pearce, Design
🦐 Bryce Curtis, Costume
🦐 Sanit Klamchanuan, Costume
🦐 Victoria Gridley, Costume
🦐 Kylie Clayton, Production
🦐 Jeff McDonald, Production
🦐 Erik Hay, Production
🦐 Brian Stendebach, Casting
🦐 Jules German, Paint
🦐 Freya Milner, Paint

Also thanks to KQED and Deep Look for lending me the clip of a (real) mantis shrimp punching a snail. Here's their channel: youtube.com/KQEDDeepLook

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MUSIC CREDIT
Funeral Procession by Twin Musicom licensieras under license Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/

Electrodoodle by Kevin MacLeod licensieras under license Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200079
Artist: http://incompetech.com/