Lauri Konttori is a seasoned Creative Director, known for shaping immersive worlds and storytelling across games and animation.
DREAM HEROES
Animation Series
Modern Sandmen vs Nightmare Monsters, who steal people’s dreams. The world’s first animated series made for short-form platforms – over 6 million organic views on Instagram.
Role: Co-Creator, writing, directing, and sound design.
BAD QUEST
Animation
An absurdly humorous animated adventure about a role-playing nerd who gets pulled into his own RPG world and is forced to save it from evil villains.
Role: writing, directing, animation… basically everything except voice acting.
39 HYPERCASUAL GAMES
Mobile Games
We pivoted Lightneer’s game business to Hyper Casual game development in 2018. The publishers were Voodoo, Supersonic, and Lightneer. During two years, I pitched around 200 game concepts, of which 39 received a greenlight and were published to CPI tests.
Role: full-time game concept creator, game designer, and team lead.
BIG BANG LEGENDS
Mobile Game
An action-based educational adventure game where the player collects atomic heroes into the periodic table. The game features battles against antimatter and the creation of new heroes from protons, electrons, and neutrons.
Role: art director, graphic designer, Character Design for the First Ten Atoms and Enemies.
SHAKIRA - LOVE ROCKS
Mobile Game
Rovio’s Match game, co-created with Shakira and filled with challenging puzzles, shimmering jewels, and exotic locales hand-picked by the pop legend. The game introduced a new gem-drop mechanic and featured 320 levels.
Role: game design, team lead, creative director.
CAT MANIA
Mobile App
A Happy Greeting Card application created in collaboration with Pokémon product designer Noriko Takahashi. With this playful app, users could create fun puppet-style animations and record audio to send themed, animated greeting cards to friends and loved ones.
Role: lead designer, Co-Producer
ANGRY BIRDS TOONS
Animation Series
The original Angry Birds animated series, which introduced audiences to Piggy Island and the mischievous personalities of the Angry Birds characters for the first time. The series was broadcast worldwide on multiple TV channels and across several streaming platforms, including Netflix.
Role: co-creating the characters’ personalities and the world with the team, script doctoring, and directing the pilot episode
STAR WARS
Animation + Mobile Game
The trailer for the legendary and hugely popular Angry Birds Star Wars game, which introduced the Angry Birds Star Wars versions to players.
Role: design team lead – The design team was responsible for the Angry Birds Star Wars character versions and Angry Birds–style Star Wars spacecraft that also appeared in the game.
ELLA & ALEKSI
Animation
A children’s music adventure film featuring well-known characters familiar to Finnish children: Lenni Lokinpoikanen and Mc Koppakuoriainen. The film is a compilation of episodes created for television.
Role: Co-character designer, dramaturg, storyboard artist, animatic artist
AB SPACE
Animation
The Angry Birds Space game trailer, which introduced a brand-new Ice Cube character. This was the first project where Rovio’s Animation Studio and Game Team worked in parallel to create a visually cohesive product.
Role: writing and character design in collaboration with the design team.
COCA COLA
Animation
This was created in collaboration with Rovio, Coca-Cola China, and the Chinese Olympic Games team. The story is set at the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Role: consulting with Coca-Cola, project ideation, and script writing.
AB YEAR OF THE DRAGON
Animation
Angry Birds game ‘Year of the Dragon’ seasons expansion, for which an impressive trailer was created. Fun Fact: In this game, the Mighty Eagle character is replaced by DRAGON.
Role: backstory and writing.
ANGRY BIRDS RIO
Animation
We worked on an exciting collaboration project with 20th Century Fox. The Angry Birds characters were integrated into the world of the Rio movie, resulting in a trailer.
Role: directing, ideation, writing, and storyboard.
AB HALLOWEEN
Animation
This trailer aimed to showcase, in a cute and fun way, the balloon bird featured in the Angry Birds Halloween expansion. I believe this was the first trailer where we were able to expand the Angry Birds world, as we explored the pigs’ palace and their lives for the first time.
Role: creating the backstory and ideation with the team.
TYRKISK PEBER
Commercial
An Angry Birds collaboration with Fazer. These candies were really delicious, and we had to taste them constantly during production. Yummy.
Role: directing, ideation, writing, storyboard, AND voiceover (yes, it's me. I still don’t know why no one ever changed it :D)
ANGRY BIRDS - CLASSIC
Animation
Angry Birds Classic (cinematic trailer), which marked the beginning of the AB animation universe. The reason the characters look so unusual in the story is that I only got to see their vector files after the trailer was completed. I was working with just a low-resolution iPhone 3G ;D
Role: ideation, storyboard, directing, and drawings.