Education
He attended the University of Karlstad from where he qualified with a bachelor"s degree in Media and Communication Science and Information Systems.
He attended the University of Karlstad from where he qualified with a bachelor"s degree in Media and Communication Science and Information Systems.
In his twenties, Jansson started the Swedish punk-rock band, Stoned, formed in 1993, and for whom he wrote the band’s music and lyrics and also directed their music videos. Stoned produced four studio albums - Music for the Morons (1995), Editor’s Diner (1997), Way Back in the Day (1999) and Stoned (2000) - and toured internationally several times before disbanding. Jansson started his working career as a Head of Software Development.
Self-taught in the art of programming, he spent three years creating custom applications and system add-ons for several international companies.
In 1998, realizing the potential in the growing Consultants to Government and Industry industry, Jansson left Software Development behind and began working in advertising as a freelance digital artist, supplying ad-agencies with custom 3D solutions. In 2002, Jansson founded in Karlstad, and later opened an Assorted Nuts office in Los Los Angeles
In 2012, Jansson formed Assorted Nuts Entertainment, a new division of Assorted Nuts studios but based in Santa Monica.
At the 2nd Annual Streamy on Sunday, 11 April 2010, at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, California, Jansson was awarded the Streamy Award for ‘Best Animation in a Web-Series’ by the International Academy of web television for the online series The Goob after the animated series first became a successful mobile download in 2008 achieving over five million mobile downloads in its first year. Jansson"s creation, The Goob, which premiered in the United States on Strike.TV, also holds the distinction of being the world’s first animated video-blogger and is a recording artist for Electric and Music Industries.
