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Thanks so much!
Love the concept and great series you have going here!
So I haven't blogged once on here, and for that I am sorry. However I have not had anything blog worthy. Now I finally do. For the last two years I've been building up a Studio with my friends in Finland, and finally we have found ourselves in a com…
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- At 10:42am on March 3, 2008,
Johnie L. Tidwell, Jr. said…
- Hi Eliza,
Thank you for joining the network. Your work is awesome!
Johnie
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- Are you a trained or self-taught animator?
- Trained as a concept designer and director through work experience.
- Where are you located or based?
- Helsinki, Finland
- Do you have an online portfolio or link to your work?
- http://scarycute.blogspot.com
- What's your favorite animation (tv show, short, feature film)?
- Tekkon Kinkreet, Nightmare before Chirstamas, Power Puff Girls, Dexters Lab... I can't choose just one.
- What or who influenced you to started animating?
- I watched hours of animation as a kid, and I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. I never even thought it was possible to have it as a job, to me it was magic. I finally figured out how it was done, and now it's my life.
- Do you work in the industry or create animation as a hobby?
- I have my own studio these days, Anima Boutique. Our web-page is animaboutique.fi
- Tell us a bit about the software and hardware used in your creative work.
- We work with Macs and cintiqs. Using adobe creative suit, corel painter, flash, and tv paint.
- Where has your work been showcased on television, internet, film festivals, mobile etc?
- On tv, there's been a couple of commercials. Ninja babies, two web episodes were shown at the Platform Festival. You can find Ninja Babies on Youtube. Mortally Challenged is also out on the web, at youtube and mortallychallenged.com .
- Any projects we can look forward to seeing from you in the near future?
- I've worked a bit on the Feature film Niko and The Way to the Stars, as a location designer, that should be out in Finland and other european countries this fall.
Hopefully before the year is done there should be at least one short film. :)
- Can you recommend an animation film or animation book that every animator should see/read?
- Animators Survival Kit, Disneys Illusion of life. However I recommend reading and watching lots and lots of comics, cartoons, and films as steady diet of influence.
Eliza Maria Jäppinen's Blog
The Guys!
So I haven't blogged once on here, and for that I am sorry. However I have not had anything blog worthy. Now I finally do. For the last two years I've been building up a Studio with my friends in Finland, and finally we have found ourselves in a comfortable place with work flow. Which has afforded us to put out our own webisode series, called "The Guys".
This concept first came out of a doodle, I did one day after work. After that I often used the guys, as sh… Continue
This concept first came out of a doodle, I did one day after work. After that I often used the guys, as sh… Continue
Posted on March 26, 2009 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments
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