Kopparbergs Tropical Cider

I'm so happy to have gotten to work on this, and happy to finally get try out new techniques. It seems the hardest thing is to convince people of the viability of something that only exists in your head. However sometimes, other people are like yeah, that could work. And then you are like yay! And then everyone has a little dance party and boogies down. Thats what happened here.


Full credits:
KOPPARBERG TROPICAL HUMMINGBIRDS
Director: Eliza Jäppinen
Producer: Anttu Harlin
Designer: Eliza Jäppinen
2D Animation: Heli Ellis
3D modeling: Olli Rajala (Anima Commerical)
3D animation: Olli Rajala (Anima Commerical)
Sound: Timo Anttila (Humina)

Agency: Zeeland
Zeeland team: Migu Snall, Mikko Vaija, Anna Korpi-Kyyny, Riitta Bergman
Client: Kopparberg

Let the Right one in.

"Let the right one in" Is hands down the best horror movie I've ever seen, when it comes to atmosphere, dialogue, cinematography, and acting. Possibly even the best movie. I feel I need to put it somewhere even higher than horror, it transcends the genre and becomes more of a social drama.

I felt I had to put this in my blog, so people don't think I'm just a twilight fan. To put it simply, Twilight is porn for ladies, and "Let the right one in" is serious cinema. If you disagree that Twilight is porn, I would have to say you are a little in denial. The deeply romantic nature of twilight is sexual, and romanticism is an integral part to female sexuality. Especially slightly masochistic romance, such as the nature of the relationship between the two characters. Then add on top of that a cast of eye candy, and there you have it. The best selling female porn in the world. All I can say, is more of this type of porn please.

Let the right one in, on the other hand is a wonderful personal experience. It's the sort of piece that makes you speechless. I have no need to dissect it, because to do that would be an injustice to anyone who haven't seen it.

Having said this, I feel much much better.

Sketchiss!

Back at work!

So I'm back at work, and listening to music. I've been at home for so long it's absolutely pleasurable to be drawing on a computer again.

Yöjuna 865

Yöjuna 865

This is a new music video that was animated and designed at Anima Boutique for a Finnish Children's music duo called Ella and Aleksi. This song is about taking the night train To Rovaniemi which is in the far north of Finland.... You know, where Santa lives :). It's produced by the Bronson Club which have made a new horror movie called Sauna. It's directed by Juuso Syrjä, and co-directed by myself.

Anyway I hope you like it. We've taken inspirations from book illustrations we remember from childhood, and contemporary cartoons. We were aiming for something with honesty and heart.

Characters

Backgrounds

Twilight

So yes, I am a twilighter... Dammit. And I can't wait for the damn movie to come to finland. In fact I'm obviously so obsessed about it that i dreamt about it last night. I dreamt I was in sweden where for some reason, (probably swedish envy) I dreamt the movie had already come out. I don't know if thats the case, but that was the case in the dream. It was a premier and all the people from the film were there, also the singer Lykke Lee which I dreamt had made some music for the movie... Anyway, in my dream Lykke Lee wouldn't shut up and was talking all through the film, so i got annoyed and told her that as much as i dig her music I wish that at this particular moment she could shut up. She laughed at me.
The dream after that just gets worse, as my eagerly anticipated movie experience takes a dive by really slow moving scenes, and a voice over in the beginning that narrated how the two are going to fall in love and basically summarized the whole plot of the movie in one go. "Typical!" I dream to myself, that they should ruins something with so much potential...

I woke up and was happy at the prospect that I have yet to see the film. Hopefully my dream won't come true. However, with twilight on the brain i quickly doodled this:

Pathetic!

Tired from the inside out...

Been working and then working some more. It's not that this is in any anything exceptional. It's just that at this point when the sun sets at 3 and the weather is like a slightly damp towel stuck in the freezer for 5 minutes, it all wears you down exponentially. As soon as it gets dark, I think mmm, something alcoholic beverage would taste good... And that seems to me to be a pretty twisted notion all together. I found it so hard to concentrate on work today, i resorted to sketch therapy... What I can make of it is not that much, I was listening to the Knife so it probably had something to do with the imagery. Yet who knows.






The weirdest thing is that bunnies pop up in my stuff a lot these days, and I don't even really like bunnies. But there they are, all over the place. Once, when i was a kid I had a bunny. I wanted one because two of my friends had had bunnies and they were great pets for them, I repeat, for them... Obviously not for me... Maybe my chocolate brown floppy eared bunny named brownie is haunting me or something. But all the bunnies I'm drawing are white, gray, or pink. So there... Can't be.. Can it?

If it only was a feature...

Sigh....