something we did a while ago.

This was a superfast project.

Ilta-Sanomat / Raha from Anima Boutique on Vimeo.

Kummeli Alivuokralainen Title Sequence

One of our works last year at Anima Boutique was this animated title sequence for the Kummeli Alivuokralainen film. Check it out! Visit Lineboil for some early development art. All the character animation was done in TVP animation, camera moves and compositioning in After Effects, background art is mix of hand painted elements and Photoshop.

Ella ja Aleksi

This is probably the first time I'm posting something else than sketches or unfinished personal projects. This music video is something we did in our studio Anima Boutique. The video was produced by the Bronson Club, designs are by Eliza and Antero. Please go and visit Elizas blog for more artwork. The whole thing was mainly animated in After Effects (bits here and there in Flash and TVP Animation). I did some of the animating and storyboarding.

Try to enjoy it even if you can't understand Finnish.

skateboarding loop---

a lot to fix in this one, it needs work on pretty much every aspect. But there's something that I like so here it is.

sketching, lipsyncing

I visited Manchester couple of weeks ago. The whole weekend was brilliant. Thanks! These sketches are from Manchester Piccadilly station. I was waiting for a friend for about 45 mins and luckily I had my sketchbook with me. It was really nice, drinking beer, sketching and watching people coming and going. (all size A4, 2-3 sketches per page, fiber-tip pen, 4 pints of lager ;) )

I have to say that I like large sketchbooks more, I bought this Moleskin sketchbook. It is nice and tiny, but I really don't feel comfortable drawing that small. Here's couple of sketches from that sketchbook too.





Here's a short lipsync test I did using TVPaint. I want to use them cowboy characters in something.

learning lipsync

I need to practice more and more animating. Here's what I did for practice last night and this morning. No inbetweens yet. I have to do some real projects too. The quote is from "V for Vendetta". I hope I'll find the time to finish this one.

such a nice day...

It's so nice weather outside so I can't stay in. I was going to clean this up this morning, but it'll have to wait. I'm not much of a poker player, but I enjoy watching it every once in a while. I was drawing caricatures of pro poker players one day and yesterday I decided to try quick animating too. Image is a snapshot how it could look when cleaned up.

quickies, rotoscope test

Here's some sketches and a rotoscoping test. Rotoscoping was done with pencil and paper. video was projected to a seetrough plastic piece via projector. Original video is from gettyimages.com. This was just a fun test if a video projector can display small enough screen for rotoscoping.

run cycle for that monkey

Here's that gorillas (or monkeys, what ever) run cycle. It still needs some work. File has both rough and cleaned up versions. I need to add some inbetweens and make some fixes to the keys too. By the way, this is done just for fun :)