Sunday, October 12, 2014

Photoshop painting and Photoshop animation

 
 
 
Tried out for the first time how to animate with Photoshop and a tablet and how to make a giff... Here:
 

 
 
 
 

The sunflowers are from a little flower animation I am making using colorful brushes and nice textures.
 
 

A posterfor a competition above. :-)





 
 
  
 

 
 

Animation and links to my films

Flowers for Stephen:
 
 
 

High Level

Making my short High Level required hiding in a bunker for least 500 full working days. The technique is traditional animation on paper.



Meet Mr. Gregory Russell! :-)


A couple of the first sketches of Gregory.



Pictures of my light box. I love inbetween animating.



These are finished stills from High Level.
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You can see High Level that is almost finished on Vimeo.

 The address is following: http://vimeo.com/52388348



A Douglas Adams animation






I also took part in international Douglas Adams animation competition in spring 2012. I got the people's choice prize with this very short short: The character above is Liisa Lievestuore from the film.

 

Something experimental



Moral stealing and charity is a very old experimental animation I did with coal. Me and my sister did the voices together. :-)



At Eksjö Animation studio in Sweden


 I was one of the animators in this film. I worked a lot on Jao who was also my favorite character. Funnily enough our film was well recognized by tabloids when coming out! :-)

 
 

THE BROWN BEAR

THROUGH THE TIME 



These are still from my newest and most important project at the moment.  I love bears and want to draw a lot of them during the next year or two. I will be updating about the progress.



So! ...close to the bottom of this link...
http://ses.fi/tukitoiminta/paatokset/


One of the best finnish actors kindly gave his voice to my bear who plays the key role in in my animation.
 





 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
Some character design
 
 
 
 
The bear's bride
 
 
 
Important men with minor roles in my bear film.
They are Elias Lönnrot, Edward Toppsell and Olaus Magnus.
 

A Snow bear landscape

 
So this is where they started to fight against the bear cult and almost succesfully drove the brown bear into extinction in Europe.

 
 

 

Water colors and illustration


This dog appeared to me in a dream. He was laying on this narrow path and was on my way. He didn't move anywhere during the dream. 






After people these sauna elves took over!  The sauna that inspired the pictures above exists and is around 100 years old. Very enjoyable!




This is my godchild's teddy Naanu. The bear has been extremely important so I hope the picture will delight her some, too. 


 

 


These separate characters above are bookmarks. Extremely fun to make!




 




I have illustrated books for publishing companies like Otava and Kolibri in Finland. Most of the books I've illustrated have been school books, but it is still unclear to me if I am allowed to show samples of them here.