Professional portfolio
Kombo was an animation studio founded by me, Lauri Konttori, Salla and Ilmari Hakkola.
A historical movie set in Helsinki in the period from 1905 until 1944. Among its motifs are the often vain search for happiness, love and prosperity. It tells the stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland’s independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties, and ending during the Second World War.
A trailer for Ella and Aleksi. The whole movie was Created at Kombo (with one sequence produced at Anima).
At first, we were fully expecting to produce the show in Cinema 4D, but as the character animations needed to be 12fps but the camera animations 24fps. This was not easy to do in Cinema so I ended up creating our animation tools and rigs on top of After Effects, where this sort of time posterization was a lot easier.
Film for a website showcasing Nokia N9 UI features. Direction by Gang Of Three.
Site of the Day 4.1.2012
A corporate video created for Nokia Siemens Networks.
A corporate video created for Halton indoor climate solutions. I did the direction on this one.
We made a number of different company presentation videos at Kombo, many of them very nice in their respective ways like this one, but they are almost all lost to time.
Silver
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Dieport is a fun short film by my friend Lauri Konttori. I was on the camera and did the color grade, among other things.
A TV ad for a bank.
A short animated film about 2 mail-robots that encounter an abandoned package. I was contacted by the director duo Mariko & Ismo after they had seen my music video Pieni ja Ihmeellinen. They loved its style and wanted to create an animated movie using the same visual style.
This time we went even bolder with matching various animation styles and we introduced traditional stop motion puppet animation and servo controlled robots. We also expanded our use of costumed live action elements as parts of puppets.
A music video for Maija Vilkkumaa. Directed by Pete Veijalainen.
A music video for Collarbone. Directed by Jukka salo and me.
A set of advertisements for a finnish national betting company. Character design bt Lauri Konttori. Directed by me.
The original Angry Birds game trailer. Directed by Lauri Konttori.
I got this gig just when I was returning from a holiday. I spent the whole trip home playing the song on a loop and feeling the visuals that it would give me. The idea I got was to visualise the DAW software: to replace each and every bar of music with a copy of the band member playing the correct part of the song.
When I presented this idea to Osmo, he had just one catch: he played most of the instruments himself. The last video we did together featured multiple copies of him! I was still so exited about the DAW idea that I did this video with my original idea anyway.
Maybe this is a trilogy? With the last video still to be made?
| Direction: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Director of Photography: | Toni Pasanen |
| Grip: | Lauri Konttori, Jyri Sääksjärvi |
A ad for donations to help the finnish war veterans. Created from actual war-time photographs.
Fun facts: Made from concept to final video in 3 days in a very high fever with a laptop at home. 1 day / setup. Uses basic camera projection techniques, but I wanted to move the camera "too much" to make it more interesting.
| Direction: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Director of Photography: | Toni Pasanen |
| Director: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Director of Photography: | Toni Pasanen |
| Gaffer: | Ville Vainio |
| Grip: | Sami Kustila |
| Animators: | Jussi Kemppainen, Ilmari Hakkola, Lauri Konttori, Tuomas Gustaffson |
Shortlist
A miniature based advert for a vegetable spread.
This ad is almost completely made with miniatures. We built a small globe and filmed it spinning. The actors were shot on a crane. 3D elements; like the cars, ships, road and water; were overlaid on the globe to add life to the scene.
A live performance of a song by Osmo Ikonen. All video material is of the actual takes.
The story behind this video is pretty freaky. I had discovered this cool Myspace artist, Osmo Ikonen, that was on heavy rotation at our animation studio office. We had listened to his stuff for maybe a week and I suddenly got a phone call from an unknown number. To my amazement, the caller was Osmo Ikonen, asking if I would like to direct a music video for him.
Of course I did – free of charge!
I can no longer remember where I got the idea for the duplicated people from, but needless to say I am into Michel Gondry big time!
| Direction: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Performers: | Osmo Ikonen, Petteri Sariola |
| Director of Photography: | Toni Pasanen |
| Sound engineer: | Niklas Nylund |
The animation and post production for this film celebrating an update of a Finnish financial magazine was created by me and Ilmari Hakkola in one week. We combined 3D, after effects and some filmed elements.
A teaser video for a new kind of note reading teaching method. Created at Kombo in the year 2008.
| Director | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Screenplay | Lauri Konttori |
| Illustrations | Lauri Konttori |
| Director or Photography | Toni Pasanen |
| Producer | Katja Kostiainen |
| Compositing | Jussi Kemppainen, Ilmari Hakkola |
| 3D Modeling | Jussi Kemppainen |
| 2D Animation | Lauri Konttori |
| 3D Animation | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Costume Designer | Anna Vilppula |
| Voiceover | Jarmo koski |
| Editing | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Color Grading | Jussi Kemppainen |
A music video for Apulanta. Directed by Toni Virhiä.
| Direction: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Crew: | Antti Kemppainen, Vältsy, Sorjola, Jyrki Kemppainen Turkka Parviainen, Topi Kemppainen |
| Direction: | Jussi-Petteri Kemppainen |
| Performers: | Antti Kemppainen, Jyri Sääksjärvi, Paavo Vartiainen, James Barnes, Heidi Kauppinen |
| Drivers: | Tiia Arnberg, Jyrki Kemppainen |
A music video for Waurio. Directed by Lauri Konttori.
A music video for Retropop.
For the longest time I had this idea of a music video with very very small planets. I tried to shop it around for quite a while without finding a great song to make it for. Then Universal luckily had a song about small planets as well and the rest is history!
| Direction: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Screenplay: | Lauri Konttori |
| Puppets and Miniatures: | Lauri Konttori, Jussi Kemppainen, Antti Kemppainen |
| Wardrobe: | Mirkka Kallio |
| Gaffer: | Toni Pasanen, Lauri Konttori |
| Grip: | Antti Kemppainen, Jyrki Kemppainen |
| Drawings: | Lauri Konttori, Tommi Ojala |
| Thanks: | Jyri Sääksjärvi, Tero Ahonen, Riitta Kemppainen Roosa Saarinen, Alex Keskitalo, Vanessa Riki, Markus Kallio Topi Kemppainen, Anna Kemppainen, Mikko Haapala, Arttu Kotisara |
Audience Choice Winner
These photos are from my archives from all the way back in 2007
Video content for Nokia Non Stop Living website. Shot and directed by me. This was my first commercial advertisement job. And this case actually prompted us to found the animation studio Kombo.
| Direction: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Audio: | Ilmari Hakkola |
| Art Direction: | Marko Vuorensola |
| Production: | Cao Quintas |
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Honorary Mention
Site of the day 8.10.2007