Ville V. Vanninen

Help, what am I doing here?

Well, I was recruited to create 3D stills as backgrounds and props for the movie. I'm the alphamale of our 3D team, meaning the only person in the 3D team, though we've had some reinforcements from time to time. My humble (gargantuan) task is creating pretty much everything that's in the shots behind the photography and effects. I'm rather low on the food chain office wise, I give my dissected renderings to Juuso for compositing, who in turn gives them to Petteri for effects and animation. I get beaten if my work isn't up to par. (Or at least I beat myself up about it.) From what I hear, I complain a lot about 3d software. I have sort of a love & hate relationship with doing 3d, and software in general. Besides 3D, I've been working on bringing our web site to life, coding the front end visual styles. When not working on the project, I wonder around the city taking pictures and meditating. (and growing hair, cut it hippie! -Jukka)

And before that?

I've been doing graphics, web design, 3d and photography as a hobby forever, and professionally for some years. I'm not big on tracking time, so I really have no idea for how long and doing what. My last job was working on handheld game titles, modelling low-poly characters and environments. There I learned quite a lot, mostly about not going to shower because of a looming deadline.

What's Thesis of Evil for you?

I love it, it’s a cool project, with hot people in a hot office. The most evil part about the project is the infernal coffee pot that spills out some hideous underwordly black oil.

Why is your definition of true happiness different from anyone else's definition of true happiness?

Because this question is too complicated for me, I just make stuff. (But sometimes the office is messing with my zen, too much fun and games and way too much 3d software shenanigans.)

What have you been up to?

I photograph a lot, check my photostream at Flickr.
My portfolio site is Pumpula.net
There's also the Foolproof UI blog for web nerds.