Fragile

Here's a few photographs from a short film Fragile, which I worked on as a production designer early this autumn. Directed by Carolin Koss, Cinematography Hannu Käki, Costumes Alexandra Ovtchinnikova.

Gonthrion

Sorry about the silence! I've been waiting for a good opportunity to share a part of a project that took most of my time last spring. I was part of a props team in sci-fi short movie Gonthrion. We made couple of pretty cool armors and weapons. The movie is currently in post production. I'll be sure to post something here when we get the final result. More information from http://www.gonthrionmovie.com/

Sketching in Helsinki

Here's a couple of sketches I drew in school. It's good to have course where one is made to look all kinds of things and take reference. We had to practise drawing movement, space, people and details. We were also encouraged to use various mediums from ink to papercutting.

robot bust

Slimy beard

Mask psychedelia

Sea creatures

mermaid wip

Coral sketch

Coral chair making of

I finally got the inspiration to continue my masking tape experiments thanks to a material course we had in school. I also had a broken chair in my living room waiting for me to fix it so I thought this was the perfect chance to make it into a whole new object. The chair and the costume are something I wish to get properly photographed in the near future but in the mean time I'll present you the making of pictures.

This is the original chair.

And this is what I brougth to our final exhibition.

I think I spent about 20 hours with this chair project and the coral vest. It took a lot less time than I thought it would. Most of the time I was rolling and painting tape. It was actually quite fun and if I had more time I'd make more of it. Here are some pictures of the process.

First I sanded the whole thing and gave it a rough look. I also shred the fabric a bit around the edges of the seat. After sanding I gave it a very light wash of gray paint and varnish. Then glued a shreaded net to make a base for the tape corals.

Dremel is my new favorite tool. I used a set of small grinding tools to carve holes and cuts on the chair. Added some dark patina and and other layer of grey paint. Gave it a light sanding after that.

Then I spent couple of days just rolling the tape. I think I used at least two rolls for these. So that's about 100 m of tape. Should have had even more variation with the sizes. Making the smallest pieces took a lot of time but the bigger rolls don't really look that good in close up.

Painting these things proved to be a challenge. I didn't have access to the perfect shade of spray so I had to sink all of the pieces into paint in order to get the color inside the tubes. After a day of  drying I sprayed a thin coat of white to make highlights.

Finally I glued the stuff on the chair. Should have had more of it and in much smaller scale to get the look I really wanted. But as we all know there are only 24 hours in a day.

Stay tuned for the photoshoot!

Shapes 'n faces

A space in the sewers

These are actually the first set drawings I've ever done. Not that they'd be accurate enough for set builders, but at least there's a guideline.

A simple sketch of the whole space. 

I think I'm addicted to floor plans. They look so neat!

Hair doodle

I've been drawing quite a lot lately but it seems I can't keep up with posting them here. I've tried some new media and hoping to get something finished by the weekend. There's also a couple of movie projects I'd like to post about if I get the permission. Anyway here's one doodle from the past few weeks. Prepare for a massive sketch dump post during this weekend!

mohawk in color

Did some simple colors on this. I'm still painting with touchpad. It's kinda sad cause I actually have a wacom next to my laptop thanks to my friend Maija. The thing is that my computer won't work with it even though we've installed the drivers right and tried practically every trick we could think of. So I'm stuck with this misbehaving machine and a 7x4,5 cm touchpad. It's not a disaster though. I've painted like this many years now and got very used to it. It just pisses me off to know all this could be much easier and faster to do. I guess I'll just have to take the situation as a learning experience.

mohawk

Hands on war