Thanks to our friends and partners at Anima Boutique for a tasty christmas greeting! We heard a rumour that one of the gingerbread guys is loosely based on a certain animator at Piñata. Go figure.
Piñata was contacted a while ago by Praveen Joseph of Silver Spring, Maryland for a permission to use the David and Goliath picture for Veikkaus as a part of a bible quiz at their church. Mr Joseph had been searching the web for pictures of the event and found our painting on Google Images. We contacted TBWA\PHS and Veikkaus about the idea and they too were more than happy to help our newfound friends in the United States.
We don’t have exact information about the questions asked about the painting. We’re pretty sure that it wasn’t “Which football team’s shirts were David and Goliath wearing?”, though.
First of all we would like to thank our friends at Sherpa for the invitation to the game yesterday. Up from the box the whole experience was kind of like watching Piñata’s old work though…
People tend to ink themselves with the strangest stuff. Kind of reminds us of “Who Killed Bambi?”
Piñata team welcomes it’s newest member, the New Zeelander illustrator and designer Brett King. Before joining Piñata Brett has worked in advertising both in NZ and Finland.
Check out Brett’s previous work at his website www.brettking.co.nz
Piñata’s search for a new 3D Artist produced a lot of applications - surprisingly many of them good, too. Now the search is over and we welcome the new member of our team, Timo Hämäläinen. You can see some of Timo’s previous work at his personal website www.timo1.com, and some of his latest stuff soon at www.pinata.fi.
We are more than happy to welcome our new producer Eevamaria Uotila. Before joining Piñata, Eevamaria has gotten her feet wet producing all kinds of stuff for Metronome, Channel Four Finland, Nordisk Film & TV, and what have you.
If you have any questions, feel free to give her a call.
Stamps by Oy Helsingin Leimasintehdas Ab. They’ve been in business for more than 120 years so the guys know their stuff. You’ll see more of these on pretty much everything we can get our hands on.
Piñata is looking for a skilled 3D artist to join our studio. Visit www.pinata.fi for more information.
Here’s one we made earlier. We did quite a bit of concept art to pitch this film, but unfortunately the client decided to go with another approach creating the animation.
Oh, you can watch the finished film here.
Johanna and Antti Rastivo of Sherpa making it sweet. Again.
Piñata is looking for a highly motivated producer to fill in for a one-year maternity leave. Visit www.pinata.fi for more information.
We just wonder who got to pick the outfit today - Sari Vierula of Piñata or Sam Schingler of Woodpecker Film?
