Visual Artist Elli Maanpää // Contact: elli@maanpaa.com
Last week was a triumphant one. On Monday I got the news I’d won the Musamation contest by the Loiskis orchestra. On Friday I got email saying I was accepted to the The Finnish Illustration Association. The Musamation animation competition is held annually by Finnish children music orchestra Loiskis. I made an animation for their song Kaikki
Here it is as promised. My masterpiece = the first 3D animation I’ve done. It’s a TV broadcast identity for the Finnish children TV channel Pikku Kakkonen. The name means Little Two… and that’s where I got the idea. I have lot to thank to our wonderful instructor John Lee back at the Centennial College 3D animation
If you’re following me in Instagram and been looking at my Instagram Stories at @ellimaanpaa you’ve seen lot of glimpses of this project. This was the biggest individual school project at the 1st Semester in Centennial College 3D Animation. I’ve been working on it all Autumn. And still am. The task was to create a
Last weekend I hopped on a school bus and travelled to Ottawa International Animation Festival OIAF. I was so happy I went. I saw amazing animation feature films and short films all over the world. Especially I enjoyed attending the talks where the artists shared their behind the scenes stories for example from such films as
You remember the puppet animation short we were working on in Turun Taideakatemia last Spring? Well I just noticed I never showed you these funniest still photographs we took on the last day of shooting. My idea was to finish the sound design and post production this summer – but life happened. Good life: apprenticeship
On this week’s video on Elli Maanpää Art I ponder aloud if tracing in art is ok. What do you think? I’d love to hear your comments. While talking about it I speed paint the painting for our puppet animation. The painting – both 3D and 2D version – is inspired by Picasso and Mondrian.
Wanna build some puppets and then make them act? Yeees. That’s what we have been doing whole spring in school – Animation programme in Turku Arts Academy – with the help of the puppet animation guru Antti Laakso. It’s been super fun. First we crafted the animation puppets from scratch with wire and foam rubber. Then
It’s pretty overwhelming to comprehend that there is just a month left of my 2nd year of animation studies in Turku Arts Academy. Wow. At this point I feel like I’ve learn a lot and that I have so much more to learn. It was time to make my 1st animation showreel to list the animations I’ve
Last week was spectacular. It was also so intense that after getting back home I’ve been down with a cold whole week. But nevertheless I’m so proud of the work we did last week in Lille in France. I’m excited that I’m able to share how the week went by in my workshop & travel vlog
Greetings from Lille France. I’m here for the Euranim Video Mapping workshop for the La Fête de l’anim’ animation festival. Today is the 5th day of the of the workshop and we are pretty much finalising the work at the moment. If you’re in the area be sure to come to check out the amazing video