TEUVO HEIKKILA is an experienced, highly capable, and strongly motivated artist, toy designer, and illustrator, from Melbourne Australia. He has over 17 years of experience with 7+ years in the toy industry and 10+ years in the games industry. Some of the well-known projects and brands Teuvo has worked on include: Disney, Marvel, DC, Pixar, Harry Potter, Transformers, Cocomelon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT), and Lion King, of which he has both illustrated and designed toys for.
Some other standouts include: Resoftables Plush Toys; concepting and creation of toys from start to finish Coles Supermarket Lion King Promotion and Woolworths Supermarket Disney Promotion; stylisation of characters, illustration of characters, packaging renders, packaging design. Concept to Completion: Madbots, Micro Wheels, Best Furry Friends, Bubble Trouble, Boxed Warriors, Hairdooz, and Glitter Rainbow.
Product Experience: collectibles, boys/girls’ toys/figurines/dolls/plushies, wearable nursery items, outdoor toys, role-play toys, and ride-ons.
Work Experience: toy concepts, toy designs, 3D turn arounds, colour specs, package art, banner art, book design, photo editing, visual mock ups, storyboards, 3D sculpting, 3D rendering, render clean up, pad print design, motion design, pixel animation, traditional animation, comics.
Program Experience: Clip Studio Paint, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, ZBrush, Keyshot.
Education: bachelor’s degree - Screen and Media.
Games Shipped:
Nintendo DS: Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses (2006)
Game Boy Advance: SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (2006), American Dragon: Jake Long – Rise of the Huntsclan (2006), Ice Nine (2003), Pitfall: The Lost Expedition (2003), The Invincible Iron Man (2002), Duke Nukem Advance (2002), Minority Report: Everybody Runs (2002), Jackie Chan Adventures: Legend of the Dark Hand (2001), Planet of the Apes (2001)
Game Boy Color: Planet of the Apes (2001), Spider-Man 2: The Sinister Six (2001)