Mika Porspakka

Current

Art Director at Digital Chocolate (Sumea Studio)

Past

Associate Art Manager at Digital Chocolate (Sumea Studio)
Game Artist at Digital Chocolate (Sumea Studio)
Designer at Arkkitehtiklubi

Game Graphic Designer at RealNetworks inc (Mr.Goodliving)
Web Designer at Scene.org - The International Scene Organization
Graphic Designer at Nextime Solutions

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Mika Porspakka’s Experience

Art Director

Digital Chocolate (Sumea Studio)

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

February 2009 — Present (6 months)
Associate Art Manager

Digital Chocolate (Sumea Studio)

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

February 2008 — January 2009 (1 year)

Looking after the art of the game projects on 3 to 4 production tracks in the Helsinki studio and managing artists on them, helping artists to define visual styles and keep them throughout the project, hiring of new artists, helping to define and refine processes and best-practices in the art department.
Game Artist

Digital Chocolate (Sumea Studio)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

March 2007 — February 2008 (1 year)

Graphic design and artwork for mobile and computer games.

- Pyramid Bloxx PC
- Crazy Penguin Catapult (IGN 8.5/10, Pocketgamer 7/10)
- 24: Special Ops (IGN 8/10, Pocketgamer 8/10)
- My Pet Store (6/10 Pocketgamer, "It looks incredibly sweet")
Designer

Arkkitehtiklubi

(Architecture & Planning industry)

August 2004 — December 2007 (3 years 5 months)

Partnership between friends, residential building design, houses. One commissioned and built project, http://www.artisokka.org/pictures/view/1185
Game Graphic Designer

RealNetworks inc (Mr.Goodliving)

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; RNWK; Computer Software industry)

June 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 9 months)

Graphic and level design for mobile games.

- Turbo Camels: Circus Extreme (Pocketgamer 9/10)
- South Park 10: the mobile game (Pocketgamer 8/10)
- Gorillaz Entertainment System (Pocketgamer 6/10)
- and others
Web Designer

Scene.org - The International Scene Organization

(Internet industry)

1999 — September 2006 (7 years)
Graphic Designer

Nextime Solutions

(Computer Software industry)

October 2000 — May 2005 (4 years 8 months)

Graphic design, UI-design, (ajax) scripting, PHP, JAVA and MySQL for web based reservation systems. Clients included

- Sonera
- Barona
- Ruka
- Engel / ISS