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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.

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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YouTube video by Attraction Tube HD 4K New York Hall Of Science Brand New ANGRY BIRDS UNIVERSE Exhibit FIRST DAY Full Tour

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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.

"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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It’s an abbreviation for the word “Mark”, usually used to refer to a particular model or design

YouTube video by Svarlingo Harlem Shake @ Rovio Stockholm

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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.

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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.

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

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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Rovio - Sveriges Snyggaste Kontor Med konceptet ”A New Nest” har en lika kaxig som lekfull och identitetsbärande miljö tagits fram som speglar Rovios företagskultur och entreprenöriella själ. Klara färger, mycket växter och innovativ ...

Sources: ssk.lokalnytt.se/info/20684
www.mer.se/projekt/rovio/

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.

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)

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.

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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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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"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/

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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/

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"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/

Several Rovio Animation artists have posted on their social medias internal artwork and doodles made as jokes, here are some of them. (1/3)

The Art of Alberto Camara This guys are 2 years old. They are scrapped concepts that I did while we were working on Angry Birds Space. I had a lot of fun during those days. I consider AB Space my baby, even though I wasn´t the...

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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.

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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Jarrod Gecek Character design and concept art.

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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.

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)

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.

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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(Full storyboard can be watched in top link, resume showing he worked on Toons in bottom)

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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There is footage of them, they’re shown off in said Piggy Tales DVD. archive.org/details/pigg...

(The segment that shows them off is 32. in the video list)

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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.

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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Additional image, being the lineart of the first page in the above post.

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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.

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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