Hi, I'm Juha, a Creator from Helsinki.

ABOUT me

Hi, my name is Juha Mattila. I do VFX, Editing, Directing, Shooting, pretty much the whole production if needed. But I am not much of a scriptwriter but for short content like music videos, I can imagine and create solid, entertaining stories.

I am up for a project or for hire. I bill through ukko.fi or whatever we agree on. 

My tools are Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, Sony A7III camera, Insta360 camera... I have fluorescent lights with softboxes, LED lights, stands, and other gear like audio gear such as Zoom F6 32bit float audio recorder Zoom F2 recoder, regular mics, instrument mics, Pole with a shotgun mic, lavs, and wireless lavs. I also have a Greenscreen setup. 

My main software nowadays are BMD Davinci Resolve, BMD Fusion, After Effects, Mocha Pro, iZotope RX10, Insta360 Studio, Affinity Photo, and many more. I can deal with other software or learn new ones. I have lots of history with Final Cut Pro 7 & X, Premiere Pro, Photoshop. I have continuum and sapphire from Boris FX. 

My native language is Finnish, but I am good with English. I can use it as my work language. It is not perfect, but I use it daily. 

On my learning lists are coding Python, Blender, and Unreal Engine. 

Under Here are the works that I think are my best, and this site works as my portfolio, 

-Juha Mattila

Let us stay for a while

I did: VFX

I did VFX for the movie "Let Us Stay for a While" (2022) by Paula Saraste. Video above has few shots I made for the movie. The first ones depict a small airplane crash site with fires burning at the lake. The other shots involve human removals from the footage. I created these using Mocha Pro and After Effects.

Candy Perfume - Silverado

I did: Idea, Directing, Shooting, Editing, VFX...

I shot this footage in Tokyo in 2019, and it ended up in this project. This project involved a fair amount of rotoscoping. The idea was to create a dreamlike, trippy parallax moving trick shot video with minimal editing. Edits came in the form of slow rotoscoped transitions. The parallax transitions were successful because the train was moving at a smooth and steady pace, which allowed most of the footage to sync together. I shot this handheld with the A7III, and I'm a bit surprised at how stable the footage ended up being.

GMMT - Netiketti feat. Muumiponi

I did: Writing, Directing, Shooting, Editing, VFX...

My first project with a green screen was a good lesson back in 2016. I made almost all the green screen mistakes and had to do a lot of rotoscoping. I was obsessed with Cyberpunk themes and wanted to create something along those lines. This music video won the Oulu Music Video Festival Teen Pumpeli award in 2019.

Chaos in harmony

I did: Idea, Directing, Shooting, Editing, VFX...

My first video that I was serious about was back in 2012. At that time, I was really into timelapse photography and Pentax DSLR cameras and lenses. I used two Pentax K5 cameras with Pentax DA 15mm, Pentax FA 31mm, Pentax FA 43mm, Pentax FA 77mm (my favorite lens), and Pentax M 135mm. I still look back on those days with nostalgia. There was also a bunch of rotoscoping done to create that fake miniature look by drawing masks in Adobe Lightroom.

Sibelius Continuum

I did: VFX

I did rotoscoping and other After Effects work for the movie "Sibelius Continuum" (2020) by Aarni Vaarnamo. What I mostly did was rotoscope the cockpit of a fighter jet. It was shot with a handheld camera, and I created fake reflections to make it look like glass was there.