Today was an online lecture over zoom because Annabeth had a funeral to attend, so Annabeth set
up the zoom lecture for Virpi Kettu to take over.
Virpi Kettu
Virpi Kettu is an award-winning director, animator and digital artist for over two decades. She's animated for Aardman Animations to help develop films/tv shows like "Wallace and Gromit", "Shaun the Sheep", "Creature Comforts" and have worked for The National Film Board of Canada, DreamWorks and Universal Pictures. She has created music videos for artists such as RTJ, Father John Misty, Radiohead and Katy Perry. Her freelance company is called Kettu Studios.
Today Virpi went over some of her past projects and showed her behind-the-scenes of her projects.
Sunrise Laughing by Hope & Social
The first project she showed us was a music video for the song Sunrise Laughing by Hope & Social.
Behind-the-scenes pictures
These are some images of the production of the music video Sunrise Laughing by Hope & Socials. Some of the variations of her dog armature, e.g., concept art, skeleton, needle felt dog, Props, Animation Space/Studio.
Katy Perry - Resilient
Afterwards, Virpi told me she did a stop-motion animation for a leading singer, Katy Perry. I really
like this animation the visuals/models are amazing.
Behind-the-scenes pictures
Dog Dales
Later on, Virpi showed me her passion project for a Dog related Augmented Reality mobile game.
Behind-the-scenes pictures
Bouncy Ball Exercise
Finally, Virpi set an exercise to create a Bouncy Ball animation in 45 mins in any software we would
like.
