Crew behind Materia:
Crew for Materia was build up from mix of freelancers, students and even professionals who work on video, audio or music parts of production pipelines. Most of the recruiting happened trought friends and IRC. Most of the crew has never met in face to face. But instead many of them are acquinted trought internet.
Samuli Jomppanen
Samuli is the project lead and the guy behind this whole thing. He did all of the modelling, texturing and rendering. Also script and cinematography is his doing. Pretty much all of the visual elements are his doing. He is 3D freelancer and holds the Aeon-Visuals.
Toni Majaniemi
Toni is a student in Lahti University of applied sciences (Film Directing) and freelancer filmer. Toni holds his own production team the TjM tuotanto. He has done many independent films in past and continues to do them while studying filming in school. His task in Materia project was editing and doing the final mixdowns. He however took part in some of the design aspects of the project.
Dennis James
Dennis is an animator from Netherlands antilles, Curacao. He was tasked to do all of the character animations for the project. In his homeland he works as freelancer animator.
Pasi Pitkanen
Pasi studies Music in Tampere University of Applied sciences. He's done many projects in the past which you can view from his homepage. His task was composing music for this project.
Tuomas Pitkanen
Tuomas was the last member to enter the team. His job was to do the sound design for the project. Tuomas is learning a trade of vfx generalist. Audio and composing is also close to his heart. Meanwhile he funds his expedition to pixelstuff by fixing slot machines and dealing cards.
Arto Harju
Arto is Finnish 3D- artist, who was tasked to do the rigging for the main character. Arto studies Mediatechnology in University of Applied sciences in Jyvaskyla.
Special thanks
- Juha Mukari
- Teemu Raunio
- #blender.fi
- Acclivity@Freesound
- Timbre@Freesound