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Finland's first motion comic series Divine Consultants launched on Yle and Instagram

“Diverse and female skewing adventure!"

Divine Consultants - The Beginning is Finland's first motion comic series. In the series 16-year-old Joy lives in...

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Finland's first motion comic series Divine Consultants launched on Yle and Instagram

“Diverse and female skewing adventure!"

Watch the series at Yle Areena: https://areena.yle.fi/1-4437693

Divine Consultants - The Beginning is Finland's first motion comic series. In the series 16-year-old Joy lives in a divided world, where everyone has to choose their side and powerful Zeniths discriminate against minority Nadir.

"Developing and publishing a new format like this is exciting! With this unique motion comic web series we can give our audience something that they haven’t yet seen. Reactions have been positive and we expect it to be a success story!”

Salla-Rosa Leinonen, Producer, Yle Drama

The brave protagonist of the Divine Consultants animation series, 16-year-old Joy, lives in a divided world where everyone has to choose their side. Powerful Zeniths discriminate against the minority Nadir. The Nadir are rumoured to spread a dangerous disease that only infects the Zenith. Frustrated Joy tries to merge into the mainstream by any means, but when her friend Hope disappears mysteriously, she has enough. Joy explores the mutation of a strange society by transforming herself into a film noir detective, but does her alter ego do her any favours?

“Great unique style! The story works for adults too.”

Petteri Pasanen, Founder, Anima Pictures Entertainment

The series visual style is a new take on motion comic and the speciality of Divine Consultants - The Beginning is expressive animated graphic novel art, mixed with traditional character animation, parallax scenes and transitions. The inventive style speaks to both friends of graphic novels and animation.

“Wow! Fantastic! I Luv it! I’m totally hooked. It’s all so beautifully drawn. I can’t imagine how much work went into each cell.”

Harland Miller, writer and artist

The first 6 episodes can be viewed now at Yle Areena. More episodes are coming in October 2019 and early 2020. The series can also be followed by the #divineconsultants on the @Areena.Stories Instagram account where the first 18 episodes are now being published one per day. The Instagram format in total is 54x1’.

"This is clever.”

Liisa Vähäkylä, Executive director, Finnanimation

The motion comic series has been developed for teenagers and young adults, a target group that currently only a few broadcasters produce meaningful and engaging content for. Fiilin Good Films’ producer Juha Fiilin is opening international sales for the series.

The web series is to be followed by a fully animated tv series, also in co-production with Yle. Fiilin is excited about the challenge of transforming the graphic novel style illustration to a more traditional animation format (13x11’).

“I just watched the first episode and got immediately hooked with the cliffhanger!“

Miira Karhula, screenwriter

The international team behind the series is Finnish-Irish-British. Martha Mackintosh (Game of Thrones Video Game) plays the lead role. The series is directed & produced by Juha Fiilin, written by Adam Cullen, lead artist is Jan Andersson and the sound designer is Salla Hämäläinen (Angry Birds).

“It’s a great series.”

Jorma Sairanen, media fund advisor