Eliza Jäppinen

Argh...

2009-11-05T14:43:00.002+02:00

Waking up early...

2009-09-29T09:57:00.003+03:00

Due to the fact that Teemu had an early morning meeting, and that Anders (my brother) was telling me how he wakes up at five in the morning and starts drawing, I ended up getting up at a time that's early for me... It was 6:30... Here's my morning project: I sketched it yesterday, and colored it today. I imagine they're trying to cross a very busy road.

Not sure if I like this morning thing.. It's 10:04 and I'm starving.

Love in the Mountains!

2009-09-11T15:29:00.003+03:00

This is the latest film we created for the Helsinki Film Festival called Love and Anarchy. I'm proud of the work, and most importantly of the whole crew at the Boutique. Viljami from the Falconauts was great fun to work with :)

The mink...

2009-09-01T17:09:00.001+03:00

Kopparbergs Tropical Cider

2009-04-29T12:08:00.007+03:00

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.

2009-03-23T13:02:00.002+02:00

"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!

2009-02-04T16:44:00.001+02:00

Back at work!

2009-01-05T18:43:00.001+02:00

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

2008-12-03T13:22:00.005+02:00

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

2008-12-03T12:07:00.004+02:00

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...

2008-11-20T16:38:00.003+02:00

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...

2008-09-30T15:20:00.002+03:00

Sigh....

Hiroshima Moonlit night

2008-08-14T18:42:00.001+03:00

Wet Revolver

2008-04-23T17:31:00.002+03:00

WTF?

2008-04-14T11:00:00.000+03:00

Yeah i don't know either...

Check out the guys!!

2008-03-09T21:54:00.003+02:00

A couple of years ago, I made these couple of quick sketches, doodles actually... And out came the guys. You can see em in the old blog entry here.

Now we've made a couple of short clips in the same spirit at the boutique, just for fun and time off... Check em out on the boutique blog here..

And finally, I made 'I hate U' and 'I heart stupid' into soft toys to give away as promotional gifts. I hate U, went to Harley Jessup from Pixar when he was nice enough to visit our studios last month. Here's a picture of the toy, hiding in a bag...

Morgan in action

2008-02-06T14:37:00.001+02:00

Morgan

2008-02-06T14:06:00.000+02:00

Just an image of Morgan from Mortally Challenged... Keeping the flame alive :)

2007-12-14T20:04:00.001+02:00

pin-up Alice

2007-12-07T17:21:00.001+02:00

The dance

2007-12-03T16:33:00.000+02:00

Just a couple of weeks ago I was in a car with my sister, her infant son, a lovely lady from the university and her 12 years old daughter. My nephew was grumpy and it was already dark at four, and he was crying like his heart was broken. My sister was driving and could only put on bob dylan to sooth his sorrows. The rest of us were sitting quietly wondering how to help... After a while we all just listened to dylan, and watched the eerie sky outside and the cold november scenery... And this is what we saw... Or so I'd like to think.

Anima Boutique

2007-11-27T11:39:00.001+02:00

I've been for the last couple of months setting up our own business with some great people in Finland. And now we finally have our web-pages up. And we also have made an under site called Chubby Cherry highlighting one of our concepts we find pretty exciting. So please check it out! :)

Madness...

2007-11-26T18:15:00.000+02:00

Some things you cannot help, and it feels like this.

More toys!

2007-09-03T11:18:00.000+03:00

Here is the weird ninja I made before the weekend, it's done in our usual Girls of Kalasatama way, no pattern just sculpting with fabric and half assing it while being slightly drunk, the results are always excellent. It's the red pvc ninja who apparently was more into fashion than fighting as he is no longer living... Sad, but flashy.

And here is the toy I made for my brother this summer... It attacked me right after I had sown it up, I'm not sure what made it so irate but perhaps there was something in the stuffing.

Thinking of you

2007-07-03T16:25:00.000+03:00

To all the great people I met at the Platform Festival, I have not forgotten. It was great, I will be in contact shortly. As for now I'm still stabilizing from the jet lag and the booze. Here's an shamefully cute card I made for just such an occasion...

Though perhaps it's also recovering from booze,
a long festival, and a 12 hour flight.