Kaija Koo - Superstadion
In her only performance of 2023, Kaija Koo brought in over 38 000 attendees to the Helsinki Olympic Stadium for her solo concert Superstadion. Under the art direction of Ari Levelä, I had the opportunity to produce visuals for four of the programme's songs, each necessitating its own style and technical approach.
Role:
3D animation, Rendering
Client:
Credits:
Stage and Art Direction: Ari Levelä, Pekka Martti
Visual Team: Ari Levelä, Pekka Martti, Saku Väänänen, Teemu Lehtonen, Konsta Fedorov, Ossi Käki, Ville Pastell
Screen Content Production: MOBB Helsinki Oy
Video: Ruutu
Kaunis Rietas Onnellinen
The backing visuals for this song feature Kaija Koo-branded lipstick matching the stage prop the singer rides around during the performance. The animated geometric patterns the lipstick tubes are arranged in give the set a sleek and minimalist look, further enhanced by the limited color palette - lipstick red contrasting deep metallic black and silver.
The scale of the central lipstick "mandala" grows into the four curved outer screens, implying an exponential continuity that draws the viewer inward.
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En pelkää pimeää
The cornerstone visual element for this set is a cloth simulation. The striped pattern of the cloth effectively enhances its volume and motion as it flows around the backside of a dancing female form. The cloth dynamics have been prepared so that it's seemingly anchored to the edges of each screen.
The set also includes animations of the cloth without the dancer present, as well as transitional animations of the cloth detaching and flying away.
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Tinakenkäyttö
My work for this song focused on the pyro simulation. The fire originates from the shape of the central Kaija Koo logo, bursting out to the edges of the stage to consume the curved outer screens.
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Mun sydän
The concept for the visuals of this set is based on a simple voxel aesthetic. The titular heart in the center screen beats satisfyingly in pace with the rythm of the song, while the elegant curve of the outer screens is accentuated by a wave motion rippling through the voxels that fill them.
As the heart breaks into two, a voxel flame erupts from it - this was done by creating a low resolution pyro simulation and using it as an inverted mask on a cube of voxels, transferring both its animated volume and its color information into the voxel grid.