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The archive of anything and EVERYTHING related to some certain species of avian and swine out there! Account is run by: @angeryshed.bsky.social and @mariepop.bsky.social
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The Facebook page of Miguel Francisco Moreno features an image of Rovio's Helsinki office from around 2011. This image includes unknown Angry Birds character designs, what their original purpose was and if they were intended for a video game at all is still not known.

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An image of Rovio Entertainment's Helsinki office from 2011 with Les Spink and Miguel Francisco Moreno. Original caption: Rovio around 2011. Les came to my desk asking for some sketch. I made it on the floor. why? no idea. Do I care? nope. Same image as first, but upside down and cropped to more prominently feature these unknown bird character designs.
January 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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"Angry Birds Universe" was a educational exhibit that toured around venues from the mid to late 2010's. Part of it features character biographies of each flock member, using Classic artwork, except for Matilda where her bio features her MK3 design but in Classic-style lineart/shading.

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An image of "Angry Birds Universe: The Art and Science Behind a Global Phenomenon" from when it toured in The New York Hall Of Science back in October 2016, featuring Classic-style artwork of Matilda's MK3 design.
December 27, 2024 at 1:47 AM
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When Rovio Animation was making "the Animation Style" that would define Toons' art direction, they internally referred to the rigs via "MK" naming. MK 1 being the "Wonderful Pistachios" rig, MK 2 being the "Tyrkisk Peber" rig, and MK 3/3.9 being the rigs used in other main animations.
A image of Red featuring his "Wonderful Pistachios" advert rig. Which was internally referred to as "THE ANIMATION STYLE" (MK 1) by Rovio, according to Hatching a Universe. A frame from the Angry Birds "Tyrkisk Peber Volcano" advert, featuring the "MK 2" rigs of Red, Bomb, Chuck, and Blue respectively. A frame from one of the "Angry Birds Facebook" promo animations, prominently featuring Red's "MK 3" rig. Note the smaller eyebrows, smaller pupils, and differently shaped head feathers as differences to the final "MK 3.9" rig. A image of Red's final "Animation Style" rig (AKA. MK 3.9) that would go on to be used in Toons' earlier episodes and some other After Effects-made AB animations from around the time.
December 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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Back when the "Harlem Shake" trend was still kicking back in 2013, employees at Rovio Stockholm got together and made their own version of the trend. This video also features unique animation of Red's "MK3" rig and Chuck's "MK3.9" rig respectively.

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Footage of "Harlem Shake @ Rovio Stockholm", featuring multiple former Rovio Stockholm employees dancing to the Harlem Shake trend back when it was still recent. Red and Chuck's "MK2" rigs are also featured throughout here
December 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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Another image also shows 2 pieces of art showing Minion Pigs in bubbles and environmental art of an island area. Whether or not these were for Big Adventure or something else is unknown. (2/2)
Left: Concept art of Toons-styled Minion Pigs floating in bubbles, what the purpose of this sketch was is unknown. Right: Concept art of an island-like area with a treasure chest hidden in the foreground. Currently it is not known if this is related to ABBA or another game project the studio worked on.
December 8, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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Rovio Stockholm's building has pictures hung up on the walls featuring concept art from their games. Notably, one of these happens to be concept art for Angry Birds Big Adventure - the time travel themed game that turned into AB2 - showing several character sketches. (1/2)

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Concept art of Angry Birds Big Adventure hung up on the walls of Rovio Stockholm. Said artwork features Bird and Pig designs for the planned pre-historic chapter of the game, alongside concept designs for dinosaur-like characters. What their original purpose was in the chapter is unknown.
December 8, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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Before Angry Birds 2 started development, Rovio Stockholm was already toying with certain concepts/ideas that would eventually find their way into AB2. One of those being the "fake-2D" character rigs which Joakim Svärling showed off back in 2018, featuring a Markus-styled Minion Pig.

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December 3, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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"So much to do! #Kingpig #Envoihyvin" Drawn by: Jaakko "Tyhtilä" Mukka Source: https://twitter.com/JTyhtila/status/613340249708560385 "@/ClaudiaArtist @/AngryBirds YEAH!" Drawn by: Jaakko "Tyhtilä" Mukka Source: https://twitter.com/JTyhtila/status/613339751375048704 Drawn by: Elina Penninkangas Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/bS9aBLmpLV/
December 1, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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"Used to work in the Angry Birds animation world. Those were the times uu babe! (just found an old doodle)" Drawn by: Janne Hermanni Korsumäki Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DChJ149tHtY/ "#rovioanimation #toiletart " Drawn by: Sanna Myllykangas Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/5ZH1eXOUUw/ "#AngryBirds #Stella #Gale #RIP #Fedora #RovioAnimation #ChalkBoard" Drawn by: Jaakko "Tyhtilä" Mukka Source: https://www.instagram.com/jaijot/p/zC4MNRgMYo/
December 1, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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Several Rovio Animation artists have posted on their social medias internal artwork and doodles made as jokes, here are some of them. (1/3)
"Thanks Tuomas and Hannu." Drawn by: Tuomas Gustafsson and Hannu Koskinen Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153990437072445 "How to draw a bird, by a colleague. #rovioanimation #howtodraw" Drawn by: Stefano Camelli Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/wx__WzuUfo/ "#rovioanimation #kerrosblues #scholeofchunk #mondayattheoffice" Drawn by: Sanna Myllykangas Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/qa-0N6OUTq/ "Memories from #RovioAnimation are still decorating my work space walls :D #HemulenssisEiMahtunutKuvaan" Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/z-hr_FM_B6/
December 1, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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An old post from artist Alberto Camara's Tumblr showcases scrapped concept art for Angry Birds Space, featuring two planetoid pigs.

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The concept art, depicting an egg-shaped pig planet with a nervous expression as asteroids orbit around it, with another image below it depicting a malicious looking pig planet with holes emitting smoke.
November 27, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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Alongside that, artist Petri Järvinen has 2 pieces of environmental art for a scrapped project on his Artstation, likely for this project due to the track like environments and the description stating the second image was by Gecek (2/2)
Environmental concept art by Petri Järvinen featuring a beach-like area with wonky looking bridges and pig houses. More concept art by Petri Järvinen, this time featuring what seems to be a city/saloon type area.
November 25, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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The Angry Birds YT's new year 2014 video features numerous teasers for projects being worked on at the time, including a vehicle for a scrapped racing game starring the Bad Piggies, with concept art for it being shared by Jarrod Gecek on his Tumblr (1/2)

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Screenshot of the "New Year / New Tricks - Happy 2014!" video on the Angry Birds YouTube channel, which prominently features concept art from this cancelled project. Vehicle concept art for the project by Jarrod Gecek which features certain vehicle types considered for the game, including the vehicle that was featured in the YouTube video. Another concept piece by Jarrod Gecek, this time featuring Foreman Pig riding a car in Cobalt Plateaus.
November 25, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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Jakob Foged's portfolio features a storyboard for a scrapped Angry Birds Toons episode. Labelled under "Angry Birds_Eggsoccer", it features Red & Chuck competing against the pigs in a game of soccer to get their egg back, which the pigs are using as the ball.

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November 24, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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The Behind the Scenes section of the Piggy Tales DVD shows test animations. One features real claymation with Red and a pig in Cobalt, The other was more accurate to the show, with a early pig model based off of the early toons look, seemingly to be used in final going by a props sheet.

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The first/earliest test animation made for Piggy Tales. Featuring Red and a Minion Pig in a Cobalt Plateaus environment, all with real claymation unlike the final show using CG animation stylized like claymation. The second test animation made for Piggy Tales, more accurate to how the show would actually look. But featuring an earlier pig model more styled like the early toons look instead of the final. Concept art of AB Toons, featuring the previously mentioned early Minion Pig design. A props sheet made for the show at the time by César Chevalier. Featuring that earlier pig model, implying it was gonna be the final design in the show originally, instead of an early test model.
November 23, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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Additional image, being the lineart of the first page in the above post.
November 21, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Around the early 2010s, British company Panini developed a proposal for an Angry Birds comic, illustrated by Lee Carey. The art mostly consisted of traces from Angry Birds animated shorts. It's unknown how far this proposal got or if Rovio was ever contacted.

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A page showing Red spying on a pig base with binoculars and then showing Bomb and a Blue the battle strategy, leading to Bomb pulling back and firing from the slingshot Another page showing a group of Helmet Pigs getting caught in an explosion (seemingly from Bomb in the previous page), with Red and the Blue celebrating, before noticing King Pig and a Helmet and Minion Pig driving through on a shoddy vehicle with the eggs, to which they both give chase on skateboards. A page showing two Blues trying to calm down Bomb to prevent him from exploding, by performing activities such as fanning him, playing the harp and lighting candles, which gradually calm him down. Unfortunately, a candle then falls on his fuse, causing it to ignite as the two Blues look at eachother in fear before he blows up. What appears to be cover art, featuring traced artwork of Red, Bomb and a Minion Pig, with the latter two being their classic designs as opposed to being taken from Miguel Moreno's early art or an animation like the rest of the traced art in the comic.
November 21, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Back in November 2013, Rovio Japan held an event at the App Bank Store at Shinjuku City with art director Toni Kysenius. The event was about teaching children on how to draw Angry Birds characters step by step. Various images from the event were archived from a blogpost at the time.

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Banners from the event outside of the building. Featuring mostly artwork from the 2011 splash screen, except for Red and Bomb who are slightly edited to be more like their Toons designs. An image of Toni Kysenius' drawings of Red and a Minion Pig at the event. These were the drawings he made while showing children how to draw Angry Birds characters. Fully new artwork made for the event, also by Toni Kysenius, these were given out to certain people in the audience at the event.
November 19, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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Artist Carl Middleton's portfolio features a reference image made for Air tracks in Angry Birds Go!, featuring an early Minion Pig model closer in appearence to its design that was used 2010 onwards and a beta screenshot showing an earlier rendition of the race start.
November 18, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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Becky Jones' portfolio talks about multiple interesting things relating to her involvement with AB Classic. Mainly being an early playtester for the game back when it was published under Chillingo, and was the first person to ever sew a plush toy of an Angry Bird.

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An image of Becky Jones' portfolio on her website, mainly the page where she talks about her playtesting experience with Angry Birds back when it was published under Chillingo/Clickgamer. Mainly her suggesting stuff like trajectory/bird trails and the "pinch-zoom" camera. "I first got my hands on an early build of the game when there were no animations on the birds. Assigned to look after it as External Producer, I was to work closely with the developer Rovio to help bring Angry Birds to market. Yet despite this version of the game being an early one, the wicked laughs of the characters had me grinning from ear-to-ear. As I started flinging birds from the catapult to hit the pigs, I knew this was going to be a fun game to work on. It was to be released under Chillingo’s mass market brand Clickgamer. Like a book publisher works with a writer to help them refine and edit their book to the right standard for launch, the role of a games publisher is to work with the developer to help them prepare for release, advising on how to polish the game to AAA standard and supporting with marketing. I worked closely with Rovio providing detailed feedback to the development team, playing through the various builds of the game, advising on gameplay and platform specific best practice, and flagging bugs. At that point the iPhone had been out for less than a year and a half, and a lot of developers were new to the user experience expectations on the platform. Some key recommendations regarding gameplay included putting in trajectories and ghosting of trails to increase the player’s ability to learn how to beat the level. Regarding platform specifics, the inclusion of gestures like pinch-zoom reduced player frustration and aligned with user interaction expectations on the iPhone." TOP: An image of the Red plush toys that Becky Jones stitched together and showed to Rovio online as examples of what an Angry Bird plush would look like. BOTTOM: The conversation Becky Jones and Rovio had on Twitter back when she was making said plush prototypes.
November 17, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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On Ari Pulkkinen's 2011 AriTunes gamescom portfolio, there is an Angry Birds-themed track around the ending portion that was never used in any piece of known media. It is currently not known what this song was gonna be used for.

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November 17, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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It looks like the intention of this piece was that it was one of the concepts for a potential Halloween episode before Night of the Living Pork became the Halloween themed episode in the first season.

"Tell me a story... ...and scare me. Small research."
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An image from Meryl Franck's old portfolio website from the mid to late 2010's. Featuring the AB Toons concept piece with Mighty Eagle as mentioned before.
November 16, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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Here is concept art of an unused Angry Birds Toons episode concept relating to Red and Chuck talking to Mighty Eagle on a fireplace at night.

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Artwork featuring Red and Chuck talking to Mighty Eagle at a fireplace setting at night (Angry Birds Toons concept art) - Meryl Franck
November 16, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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Our account is ran by two citizens of the Piggy Kingdom!

- Shed (left)
- Marie (right)

We just post about intriguing, interesting, or borderline mysterious pieces relating to Angry Birds and its media. We'll post about anything we just so happen to find in our research, Hope you enjoy!
A piece of artwork with text that says "MEET THE DETECTIVES" while showing off the current admins of the Piggy Island Archives account.
November 16, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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Welcome to the Piggy Island Archives! Home of everything you may have not known relating to the Angry Birds, the Bad Piggies and their home.

Our posts will be documenting some piece of Angry Birds media (usually Classic-era) in the best ways we can. Hope you enjoy your stay!
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November 16, 2024 at 1:00 AM