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Childhood trauma revitalized

2011-12-04T15:08:00.001+02:00

Title: Childhood trauma

Software: Adobe Photoshop
About: Moomins were the number 1 show I watched as a kid, and in the very first episode Moomintroll hides in a Hobgoblins magical top hat and when he comes out he is transformed in to this scary thing that I used to have nightmares of.

Here's the creature in it's original glory, this is also the picture I'm using as a reference image:

Here's the first work in progress picture, some basic colors and facial features, nothing dramatic yet.

small update

Caricature doodle

2011-04-04T23:31:00.002+03:00

Title: caricature doodle
Software: Adobe Photoshop
About: Where do you get your pants? from the toilet store?

Connection lost

2010-11-08T19:35:00.003+02:00

Title: Connection lost
Software: Blender
About: I did a 3D model of a space ship for a short film called "Connection lost".

Here's a direct quotation from the facebook page:
""Connection Lost" is a shortfilm about the importance of linguistic and cultural diversity. The film is being made by students of Tampere University Of Applied Sciences: Art & Media. The script won 5000 EUR production grant - among with other 14 scripts - at the Languages Through Lenses 2010 -shortfilm competition. The final shortfilm will compete at the Prix Europa -competition, also known as "The European Oscars"."

You can watch it here:
http://www.prix-europa.de/pe10/languages_through_lenses/connection_lost_finland/

I did only the 3D model, compositing and animation is not my work.

New layout! - a Web Design course assingment

2010-05-11T09:09:00.003+03:00

We had an assignment to create a blog/portfolio or update an existing one, so I updated
my blog/portfolio a bit with new layout and with a gallery and about me pages.

Here's a layout image that was required for this assingment:

Old stuff

2010-03-02T14:11:00.010+02:00

About: Here's a bunch of old stuff, that I just found and thought I'd share

w.i.p viking

Artrage doodle

Here's a quick doodle

3d character

vampire killer Blade with huge lips

3D animation project

2010-01-26T10:58:00.007+02:00

Title: 3D animation project (Kalkkuna-animaatio (Turkey-animation))
Software: Blender
About: I joined an animation project as a modeller and rigger, more info at: http://3danimationproject.wordpress.com/

Here's some screenshots of my work for this project:

I'm mostly responsible of the characters, but I'll be modelling some other stuff as well.

I only did the 3d mesh and rigs of the characters, textures were done by other
people in the group.

CrossFit Tampere

2009-12-14T19:27:00.006+02:00

Title: CrossFit Tampere
Software: Inkscape, Blender
About: I designed a logo for CrossFit Tampere ( http://crossfittampere.wordpress.com/ )
and created a header for their website.

I created the kettlebells that are on the background with Blender.
The logo was created in Inkscape, here's the plain logo.

Here's a photo of a pile of flyers, that I designed for the opening of CrossFit Tampere gym.

Cat - 3D

2009-11-07T13:36:00.002+02:00

Title: 3D Cat
Software: Blender
About: I just had a feeling that I should do some 3D and decided to try to model a cat.

Patrick Jane - 2D

2009-11-03T23:26:00.010+02:00

Title: Patrick Jane
Software: Adobe photoshop elements
About: I'm a big fan of "the Mentalist" -series and here's a painting of the show's hero: Patrick Jane. Here's a w.i.p pic.

A little update, the teeth are still totally crap, but I'll get them when I feel like it:)

Logo for European Karate Championships 2014 in Finland - 2D

2009-10-29T13:40:00.006+02:00

Title: School assignment: Logo for European Karate Championships 2014 in Finland
Software: Inkscape (and I did first some versions in school with Adobe Illustrator, but the final version was made with Inkscape)
About: Visual design -course:We were supposed to create a logo for European Karate Championships 2014 that will be held in Finland.

The Karate federation chose a logo that my classmate did and I think he totally deserved to win:).

Here's my submission:

Now that it is done, I'm not sure if I'm that satisfied with it, but that's what I came up with
in the given time.

School assignment: Animal manipulation - 2D

2009-10-25T12:12:00.005+02:00

Title: School assignment: Animal manipulation
Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements
About: Visual design -course: Our assignment was to mix 2 different animals and yourself and place it in an environment that's not usual for any of the chosen animals.

I haven't really done much photo manipulations, so it was fun break from my usual stuff.

I mixed the following animals: lion (body), monkey (head), me (head) and threw them in to a snowy landscape. It wasn't too hard as I kinda look like a monkey already.

------------School started! -4D------------

2009-10-25T12:04:00.008+02:00

Few months back, I started my school at TAMK (Tampere University of Applied Scienses) in Degree programme in Media.

From now on I will be posting also some of my school assignments to show my process in learning at TAMK.

Change is coming - 3D

2009-06-25T22:56:00.005+03:00

Title: Change is coming
Software: Blender(modelling), Adobe Photoshop Elements(color correction)
About: Here's something I've been doing on and off for a while.

It's still unfinished, I need to make some fine tuning, choose the angle and whatnot.

Here's a blender screenshot of the mesh.

Butterfly - 3D

2009-05-31T12:41:00.003+03:00

Title: Butterfly
Software: Blender
About: I did this just for fun.

Here's a quick test render. The sky texture is from http://www.cgtextures.com/

Shades of Violet - 3D

2009-04-27T21:28:00.014+03:00

Title: Shades of Violet
Software: Blender
About: I'm currently working as a modeller in indie point and click adventure game called Shades of violet. The game is developed by Imagineer games, visit them at http://imagineergames.com/ (FINALLY the website is up and running).
I'm responsible only of the modelling, the desiqns and textures are made by other people in the team

I'm working on a low poly character called Edison Elegy, here's him without any textures yet.

Teaser of the game is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBuKRCucI4A
Trailer will be up soon:)

Here's another character: Sorcerer

I'm working on another sorcerer model without the mask called Nikita here's her face:

Here's a character called Edelweiss Elegy in her human and a "prototype"(sort of a puppet) versions:
Here's Mort:

Here's a video of the game opening, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7IOsnvVhh4

Here's a character called Priest Porridge. I don't know why I decided to render the earlier screenshots of the models with solid shading, but now I decided to change it to smooth shading.

Here's a generic soldier model:

Here's a new character called: Origa Orville

Here's a little preview of the game by Adventure Gamers: http://www.adventuregamers.com
/newsitem.php?id=1972

By clicking the picture above it will take you to the screenshot index gallery of the preview.

Chinese girl - 2D

2009-04-25T11:17:00.004+03:00

Title: Chinese girl
Software: Adobe photoshop elements
About: Work in progress...

some progress...

Woman in shades - 2D

2009-04-04T12:27:00.001+03:00

Title: Woman in shades
Software: Adobe photoshop elements
About: work in progress...

Ice Queen - 2D

2009-04-04T12:23:00.003+03:00

Title: Ice Queen
Software: Adobe photoshop elements
About: Inspired by Within Temptation's song "Ice Queen", it has nothing to do with the lyrics tho'.

Corpse Bride - 2D

2009-02-20T00:31:00.003+02:00

Title: Corpse Bride
Software: Adobe photoshop elements
About: This is my version of Tim Burton's Corpse bride. Here's a w.i.p picture of her:

Here's an updated version:

2D woman

2009-02-19T20:35:00.002+02:00

Title: Untitled, just a woman potrait
Software: Adobe photoshop elements
About: This is an unfinished piece of a woman

Rigged 3D character

2009-02-17T19:59:00.004+02:00

Title: Rigged 3D character (I like to call him Mokmok)
Software: Blender
About: Just a rigging practise. Not the best rig, but I'm getting there

Here's a test of a walkcycle animation

3D stuff

2009-01-26T15:10:00.005+02:00

Title: Random 3D stuff
Software: Blender
About:
Here's a model of a robot's head.

and here we have the head of a scientist who is the father of the robot above.

Here's a laboratory

Maverick, a 3D face practise

2009-01-26T14:55:00.005+02:00

Title: Maverick
Software: Blender
About: 3D face
Here's him after some detail sc

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air - 3D

2008-04-27T13:12:00.006+03:00

Title: The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Software: Blender
About: 3D render of Will Smith as the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Here's the first w.i.p pictures. The model is still very work in progress and it will change alot.

First the orthographic pictures:

Here's a quick render with and without the hairpiece

Just testing some texture settings

Aid - 2D

2008-03-29T13:14:00.005+02:00

Title: Aid
Software: Gimp
About: This was a school project. I'm not totally satisfied on the colors, but I'll leave them like that for now.

Quick sketch

Final piece

Candle and the moon - 2D

2008-03-25T23:21:00.003+02:00

Title: Candle and the moon
Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements
About: Again, I tried to create a moody piece.

Shooting star - 2D

2008-03-25T19:34:00.003+02:00

Title: Shooting star
Software: Adobe photoshop elements
About: I wanted to create a piece with a feeling, a mood.

Red

Blue

Skullboy meets Snoutbird - 2D/3D

2008-03-24T11:20:00.000+02:00

Title: Skullboy meets Snoutbird
Software: Blender
About: First I drew all the elements on paper, scanned them and then composited them in Blender

The Skullboy after scanning

The composition in Blender

The Final piece

Johnny Depp & Nick Frost - 2D

2008-03-22T11:53:00.000+02:00

Title: Johnny Depp & Nick Frost
Software: Adobe Photoshop
About: About an 1-2 hour of work. I used reference images from google.