Who am i?:

I, Samuli Jomppanen born in Inari, Finland 1984. Since the early 90s he i've been fiddling around with computer graphics and ideas about tales. I was not much of a writer as a young boy, but i did like to draw a lot, and most of my drawings revolved around creatures, places and things from my own imagination.

Around 1996 i got my own PC, which introduced me to the Internet, opening whole new world of opportunities for me. However, it took many years before i could seriously invest time into graphics and story writing due to other commitments (education and armed service). After that i finally had time to train himself properly in the arts of 3D graphics which i had started as hobby around 1998 with Demo versions of 3D Max and Lightwave 3D. And as past time reading i read a lot of books about Dramaturgy, Storytelling and how to make images that have something in them. Later with the help of free Blender 3D, free, full pledged and flexible 3D modelling software, empowered me to try my shortfilm experience in 3D animations, which turned out nice, and the result was Materia the original. And here we are now.

I have also worked as a semi-pro Cameraman and video editor. My hobbies include filming, photography and many others skills such as gold panning. Around 2005 i managed to get some small contracts from Web-design companies to produce graphics for them, which launched my freelance career. Currently i am unemployed and trying to make another 3D animated shortfilm, in hopes of building a carreer on Films and storytelling. Now and then i might take on some small freelance jobs, to get some badly needed extra cash.

- Creating realms from dreams -

What do i want to do?:

I want to tell stories. I just enjoy creating weird places and strange events happening in some alien world. Or just create strange situtations in world similar to our own. I love things that are visually powerfull, or just mindbogling. I always try to get out something unexpected or new out of my writings. I just love writing fantasy and scifi stories, where i can let my imagination just fly freely creating strange things that create incredibly interesting results, or sometimes something not so good. That happens even to the best i hear. As i've gained some reputation as some sort of 3D artist, its mainly because i've ran out of storytelling tools that fit into my hand, i had to do something so i picked up 3D tools and started making something out of it. I dont have enought interest or natural talent to be master of 3D, but i know this much, that it is powerfull and almost necessery tool for what sort of stories i would love to create.

Story writing:

I prefer to dwell in dark, and very down tuned worlds. Where most hope and happines has vanished or have become very distant, atleast for the one who is going thru the story. I dont like happy tales, as they give out so easily what the end result will be. I believe you can be happy only in so many ways, but there are nearly endless ways how you can suffer and have bad ending. I also have quite and tendency to build stories into very big scale, clash of titans sort of story building, where entire worlds or nations can be on only pawns of some larger scheme of some universal game, played between protagonist and antagonist.

Art directing:

I dwell in shadows and distant lights. I find that shadow is my friend as it can hide what i am doing, and can be used to cover some quite surprising things. Works well in story too, or just as an philosophy for life. Better to keep thy own colors hidden until you can unleash them to their full potential. And beyond all that, i love metal, mechanical things, cold steel and the glimering glow of various hard metals.