Jaakko Iisalo

Jaakko Iisalo is a Finnish video game designer, developer, and the Senior Game Designer of Angry Birds. He is one of the lead people in the making of Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Bad Piggies, and other Rovio games. He is the chief designer of Rovio and was the leader of the making of Angry Birds. He was the person who sketched the birds used in Angry Birds as well as the pigs.

Game credits

 * Best Fiends (2014)  (Level Designers)
 * Angry Birds Star Wars II (2013)  (Creative Director)
 * The Croods (2013)  (Creative Director)
 * Angry Birds Space (2012)  (Lead Game Designer)
 * Angry Birds Star Wars (2012)  (Lead Game Designers)
 * Angry Birds Trilogy (2012)  (Design Supervision)
 * Angry Birds Rio (2011)   (Game Design)
 * Angry Birds Seasons (2010)  (Lead Designers)
 * Angry Birds (2009)  (Lead Designer)
 * Totomi (2009)  (Game Design, Graphics)
 * War Diary: Crusader (2006) (Artist)
 * Paid to Kill (2005) (Artist)
 * War Diary: Burma (2005) (Artist)
 * Love Rocks Starring Shakira (2015) (Special Thanks)

Trivia

 * Iisalo was spoofed into a Developer Bird (seen in gallery).
 * He was featured in a Chrome advertisment where he was portrayed as a Developer Bird.
 * Iisalo was the artist who made the original sketch for an Angry Birds game (seen in the gallery).