Reel 2020
Kuuhyppy
A short film we created with our daughters when they were 3 & 8. Both of them also drew the characters they acted. This was a lovely little weekend project!
| Animation: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Screenplay | Myy Kemppainen, Ruu Kemppainen, Kiia Kemppainen |
| Illustrations: | Myy Kemppainen, Ruu Kemppainen, Kiia Kemppainen, Jussi Kemppainen |
| Voices | Myy Kemppainen, Ruu Kemppainen, Kiia Kemppainen, Jussi Kemppainen |
Olavi Elää
A cool album cover for a Finnish rock album from Olavi Uusivirta. I did the layout and rendering and 3D scanned model cleanup for this project. The director of the project was Tero Ahonen.
Aallonmurtaja
The title sequence for a Finnish TV show Aallonmurtaja. Directed by Tero Ahonen.
Virtual Traveller
A promotional video created for a mobile VR app startup.
The video is actually made to be experienced in 360 VR.
Quantum Break
Trailer for Quantum Break, showcasing some of the work we did for the cinematics in the game.
Quantum Break is a blockbuster game with time-amplified action and a suspenseful storyline brought to life in a way never done before by fusing gameplay and a gripping live action show. Time itself becomes fractured in a time travel experiment, Jack Joyce fights the secretive Monarch Solutions to put things right before it’s too late. The actions you take and choices you make shape your experience in the show, creating a new and unique entertainment experience.
The Visual Effects Society
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project: Nominee
Remedy logo animations
For Quantum Break I also got to create a set of various motion graphics. Mainly logo animations and in-game branding for Monarch corporation.
The Quantum Break branded logo animations were created in After Effects with Video Copilot Element 3D & Trapcode Particular, carefully mimicking the look of the in-game stutter effect created by Janne Pulkkinen.
I also created a bunch of in-game used branding content for screens in various levels.
Ainola Alive
A live visual VJ set for Meidän Festivaali celebrating Jean Sibelius and especially his wife, Aino. Together with my brother we produced visuals for 4 concerts in total.
We did not know of the performances in advance, so I built a live visual set capable of adapting to any type of music. All effects were reactive to the music being played and we could control things by hand as well during the live performance. 2 persons were required to control the visuals and keep them going at all times. It felt like playing an instrument as a member of the band. We could play off of the performers and they of us as they were encompassed by the screen.
I also designed the stage which was a first for me.
| Direction: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Illustrations: | Antti Kemppainen |
| Director of Photography: | Toni Pasanen |
Stage previz renders
Behind the scenes
Iron Danger Proof of Concept
A proof of concept trailer directed by Sami Timonen for an Iron Danger movie. This is a standalone piece separate from the game production with the same name.
Behind The Scenes
Celebrating 20 Years of Remedy
A fun marketing video for Remedy. Learn how to do the Max Payne face(tm)!
Post effects, grading and logo animations by me.
Michael
A video installation of Michael Jackson created for Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art.
I worked on the face replacements for the wide shots. We painstakingly created this with Nuke & Maya well before the time of AI face replacements.
| VFX Production Company: | Troll VFX |
| Artist: | Adel Abidin |
| Director: | Sam Shingler |
| Technical Director | Juuso Kaari |
Fix you
A live performance by Petteri Sariola. Directed by me.
Angry Birds Toons Rigging
In this presentation I describe the creation of the 3D-like rigging in Adobe After Effects to produce 2D animation with hand-drawn qualities for Angry Birds Toons.
Check out the end result while you are at it:
A short movie that introduces a new bird into the flock.
Meet the Pink Bird
Technical direction for a TV show based on the Angry Birds mobile game.
Angry Birds Toons
Interviews
Adobe: How did Rovio Animation get started? Kemppainen: After Rovio’s amazing success in mobile gaming, the company decided to expand its offerings to include more entertainment and publishing offerings. I founded a studio in 2007 named Kombo, which Rovio purchased in 2010. I then became one of the co-founders of Rovio Animation and was responsible for creating an Adobe After Effects rigging system for the characters in the Angry Birds Toons cartoon. provideocoalition.com
Bloopers
Bensusan
A live performance by Petteri Sariola. Directed by me.
Pollen – Trailer
A trailer for the VR game Pollen. Directed by Jukka Salo.
Easy
A live performance by Petteri Sariola. Directed by me.
I still haven’t found…
A live performance by Petteri Sariola. Directed by me.
Shuffle & Spawn
An Angry Birds collage music video for Ted Striker. Directed by me.
Ten More miles
A music video for Turisas. Directed by Jukka Salo.
Miten Sydämet Toimii?
A music video for Anssi Kela. Directed by Jukka Salo.
Back From Your Grave
| Direction: | Jukka Salo |
| DoP: | Toni Pasanen |
| Post Production: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Screenplay: | Jussi Kemppainen, Jukka Salo |
| Illustration: | Antti Kemppainen |
Meet the Pink Bird
A short movie that introduces a new bird into the flock.
For this my role again was the technical director. I was in charge of the character rigs and the development of the full studio animation pipeline from layouts to final image.
Angry Birds Toons
A teaser trailer for Angry Birds season 1. created at Rovio Animation Studio (Which was Kombo, merged in to Rovio).
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Uneton 48: Härkämiehet 2
An entry we did for the uneton 48 movie competition where the idea is to make a movie in 48 hours. This time the jury failed to see the greatness of our masterpiece.
Angry Birds NASA
An Angry Birds Space announcement video. Actually filmed in space! Most viewed video I directed to date: over 30 million views.
Uncut version at NASA’s channel.
On se hienoo
A music video for GG Caravan. Directed by Jukka Salo.
The character animation for this piece is created from a fly illustration my brother Antti drew and sent to me. I then animated the fly in after effects and printed out the frames. These frames I then cut out and photographed on a green screen. The crumbling up effect was created by stop motion animating the animated fly papers to crumple up.
Kaksi Sanaa
A music video for Tommi Läntinen. Directed by Jukka Salo.
Angry Birds Seasons Ham’o’ween
A short movie to accompany a halloween themed update for Angry Birds Seasons.
This was my first project at the new internal Rovio animation studio. I did the technical direction, character rigs and a bunch of compositing for this piece.
Missä Kuljimme Kerran
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.
Behind the Scenes
Nokia N9 “Swipe”
Film for a website showcasing Nokia N9 UI features. Direction by Gang Of Three.
The FWA
Site of the Day 4.1.2012
Nokia Siemens: Flexi
A corporate video created for Nokia Siemens Networks.
Uneton 48: Hyvää Syntymäpäivää
An entry we did for the uneton 48 movie competition where the idea is to make a movie in 48 hours. We won the audience choice award.
Uneton 48 2011
Audience Choice Winner
Finalist
Kylkeen Kyhnytä
A music video for Lauri Tähkä. Directed by Jukka Salo.
Halton
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.
W3 Awards 2011
Silver
Vuoden Huiput 2011
Shortlist
Dieport
Dieport is a fun short film by my friend Lauri Konttori. I was on the camera and did the color grade, among other things.
Aktia PS
A TV ad for a bank.
Cosmic Avenger
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.
Behind the scenes image gallery
Lottovoitto
A music video for Maija Vilkkumaa. Directed by Pete Veijalainen.
The Machine
A music video for Collarbone. Directed by Jukka salo and me.
Veikkaus: Yllätys
A set of advertisements for a finnish national betting company. Character design bt Lauri Konttori. Directed by me.
Angry Birds Trailer
The original Angry Birds game trailer. Directed by Lauri Konttori.
Heaven Or Hell
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 |
MTV3 MAX – WW2
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.
Kertojat
| Direction: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Director of Photography: | Toni Pasanen |
Distorted Love
| Director: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Director of Photography: | Toni Pasanen |
| Gaffer: | Ville Vainio |
| Grip: | Sami Kustila |
| Animators: | Jussi Kemppainen, Ilmari Hakkola, Lauri Konttori, Tuomas Gustaffson |
Muuvi 2009
Shortlist
Suudellaan
A music video for lauri Tähkä. Directed by Jukka Salo.
Flora Christmas
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.
All By Myself
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 |
Kauppalehti
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.
Biisi Liisi & Kurittomat nuotit
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 |
Vauriot
A music video for Apulanta. Directed by Toni Virhiä.
Pauhaava Sydän
A music video for lauri Tähkä. Directed by Jukka Salo.
Kauan Kauan Sitten
A music video for Liekki. Directed by Jukka Salo.
Gruuvit Tiu Kalla
| Direction: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Crew: | Antti Kemppainen, Vältsy, Sorjola, Jyrki Kemppainen Turkka Parviainen, Topi Kemppainen |
Luonnonkuoret
| Direction: | Jussi-Petteri Kemppainen |
| Performers: | Antti Kemppainen, Jyri Sääksjärvi, Paavo Vartiainen, James Barnes, Heidi Kauppinen |
| Drivers: | Tiia Arnberg, Jyrki Kemppainen |
Menneet on päivät
A music video for Waurio. Directed by Lauri Konttori.
Pieni ja Ihmeellinen
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 |
Muuvi 2007
Audience Choice Winner
Behind the Scenes
These photos are from my archives from all the way back in 2007
Costumes
Miniatures
Principal photography
Snow
A music video for Pooma. Shot by me, my dad and brother Antti at our summer cottage during one rainy night using self-built camera wire rig and a dolly.
I actually had to shoot the cabin sections twice, because it was so dark and the image vas unusably noisy on the first go. GH5s or Alpha 7 s camera would have been a something!
| Direction: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Grip: | Christoffer Forssell, Juuso Kemi, Antti Kemppainen, Jyrki Kemppainen |
| Thanks: | Jere Leskinen, Arttu Kotisara, Tuire Lukka |
OMVF 2008
Honorary Mention
Non Stop Living
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 |
Cannes Lions 2008
Shortlist
Vuoden Huiput 2007
Honorary Mention
The FWA
Site of the day 8.10.2007
Loistaa Loistaa
A music video for Liekki. Directed by Jukka Salo.
Day Without Air
A music video for Traffic Island. Directed by Jukka Salo, Juhani Koivumäki & Jussi Kemppainen.
Ugly to the Bone
An animation that I created as an extra piece for my graduation thesis from Lahti University of Applied Sciences – The Institute of Design in 2006. The background painting was done by artist Pekka Veikkolainen and the sound design was done by Joonatan Portaankorva.
Tiistai
A music video for Valvomo. I did all of the Prost production for this.
Ensimmäinen Kaiken Ottaa
A music video for Valvomo. Directed by Jukka salo & Juhani Koivumäki.
Huudetaan
In memory of Markus.
A music video for Zarkus Poussa. A story about a couple who can not stop fighting but can not break up either.
The first music video I have ever directed. This made me quit my then on-going game development career and go into video production for almost 10 years.
| Direction: | Jussi Kemppainen |
| Screenplay: | Jussi Kemppainen, Zarkus Poussa |
| Actress: | Minna Puolanto |
| Thanks | Jyrki Sukula, VIA ravintola |
OMVF 2006
Honorary Mention