Unannounced movie project (2005-?)

Supervisor

Various freelance and illustration clients (2003-2005)

Ducati World Championship, XBOX / PS2 / PC (Artematica)

Spy Hunter,Tapwave Zodiac (Fathammer / Midway)

Stunt Car Extreme, Dell Axim (Fathammer / Dell)

Lowpolygon3d.com

Others

Unannounced game project (2002-2003) (Catmother Ltd.)

Game design

Game play design

Character animation system design

Concept art

2D / 3D Graphics

Flatout, PC / XBOX / PS2 (2001-2002)(Bugbear Entertainment Ltd.)

Operating as senior 3d artist, working on driving game prototype

Instructing less experience 3d artists at Bugbear in modeling and texturing

Designing and planning work flow for real-time environment modeling techniques

Making graphics content for the prototype

Character model prototypes

Rally Trophy, PC (2000/2001)(Bugbear Entertainment Ltd. / Published by Jowood)

I was working on Bugbear’s previous, now published game called “Rally Trophy”

Rally Trophy has been pretty much most hyped rally game of 2001/2002 (Gamespot driving simulation of the year 2002)

Creating environment graphics

Creating lots of other assets for the game in quite tight time budget (bit more than 3 months)

Created roughly 50% of all graphical content of Finland track set in Rally Trophy. (This included all 3d models for landscape, trees and other objects, texture painting, photography for textures and so on.)

Creation of all animal models, including textures and animations appearing in the game

Re-modeling and texturing the driver and co-driver models

Creating all driver animations

Creating lens flare graphics

Creating other effects graphics like environment maps, particle animation sprites.

Transworld Snowboarding, X-box (2000/2001)(Housemarque / Infogrames/Atari)

Game was featured in the top gaming magazines, most notable one is probably EDGE (UK) magazine which had one page preview

During and after E3 show (2002) Transworld Snowboarding was on the front pages of most on-line gaming sites (Gamespy, Gamespot and many sports gaming sites)

Contract work on Transworld Snowboarding game, creating three hires in-game characters (team work with my brother)

Modeling of character bodies, clothes and heads

Animation setup of characters (skinning)

Creating facial animation targets (for facial expressions)

Texturing of characters

If it did have anything to do with quality, our models were on almost all of the front page and closeup shots on gaming sites and magazines

Also this project was quite tight on time; Time budget was cut into 1/3 of the original time budget, but we still managed to get the characters done in time

Meetfactory Ltd. (2000)

I was working as Art Director for all projects during my time at Meetfactory

Creation of real-time 3d content for virtual reality environments

Rendering material for print, poster and expo purposes

Moonscan Ltd. - Various projects (1999)

Multimedia productions

3D renderings

On-line games

Clients included Renault Clio, EMF acoustics and some other Finnish companies

Thrust, Twist ‘n’ Turn, PC (1997-1999)(Carts Entertainment / Take2 Interactive)

First ever 3D engine powered game made in Finland

This game was a futuristic arcade racing game, though not the finest specimen of the herd, it got somewhat good reviews, ranging 75% to roughly 90% (PC Format UK). It was a medium budget “A” class game

Art director of the game

Game concept design and prototype levels

Vehicle designs

Level design, modeling and design of tracks and and vehicles (approx. 50% of all content)

Matrox G200 technology demo graphics (1998)

I created 3d landscape environment and textures for Matrox G200 display card official technology demo

Demo was created by Twilight 3D Ltd.

Misc. other works
Articles on modeling and texturing realistic human head

I have written some magazine articles for an Italian publisher called Imago Edizioni (http://www.imagonet.it/) (team work with my brother)

Our tutorials were made in the period of time when not so many of these now common human modeling web tutorials existed (before 2000)

Skills:

3D skills

Modeling realistic and non-realistic human characters

Modeling objects from trees to fire extinguishers

Modeling cars and motorcycles (hires and lowres)

Modeling animals

Modeling weapons

Modeling and scripting effects

UV mapping and texturing any objects, polygonal and subdivision surfaces

Rigging and animation

Creating characters for games and animations

Can create simple expressions and driven key setups

Animation skills, knowledge of animation principles

Basic facial animation skills, phoneme and facial muscle target creation

IK and FK animation

Designing, modeling and texturing game environments

Modeling and texturing effect particles

Drawing skills

Concept art and illustration

Drawing humans

Illustrating and designing promotional material

Design skills

Game design

Writing game design documents

Game engine design

Effects design

Other skills

Teaching / instructing junior artists

Writing documentation

Assembling PC computers

Installing operating systems

Installing LAN networks, setting up file and printer sharing

Familiar with Unix, DOS, Windows 3.11 - Vista environments

PHP

MySQL

CGI

Apache

Configuration + customization of various CMS systems

Tools:

Adobe Photoshop

Textures, Photo manipulation, retouching, Layer effects, Effects, patterns, particle animations etc

Painter

Painting

Lightwave 3D (versions 4 – 9)

Solid modeling skills in Lightwave

Solid animation, lighting and rendering skills in Lightwave

Knowledge of internal and third party plugins

Ability to customize Lightwave interface

3ds Max (versions 1.x – 9.x)

Solid Character Studio skills

Freeform animation, layered animation, animation mixing, processing motion capture data

Solid modeling, UV mapping and texturing skills

Solid knowledge of edit mesh, editable poly and subdivision surface modeling tools

Good knowledge of 3dsmax modifiers

Good knowledge of 3dsmax materials, building multilayer materials

Experience with spline modeling and nurbs modeling skills

Rendering

Vray

Finalrender

Mental Ray

Max scanline

Brazil

Adobe Illustrator

Lineart

Xara

Lineart

Rhino

Basic nurbs modeling skills

Open Office, Microsoft Office

all kinds of documents; Powerpoint presentations, html pages, flow charts etc

Digital Fusion

Basic skills, compositing, adding effects, color correction

AfterFX

Basic skills, compositing, adding effects, color correction

Syntheyes

Basic tracking and other tasks