animation Archives - Elli Maanpää

Augmented Paintings in Animatricks 16.-18.10.

Exhibition - Augmented Paintings in Animatricks - 16 Oct to 18 Oct 2020 - Bio Rex, Helsinki Finland

ELLI MAANPÄÄ AUGMENTED PAINTINGS (ANIMATRICKS) DATE: 16 Oct – 18 Oct 2020 PLACE: Bio Rex, Helsinki, Finland My Augmented Paintings will be attending the Animation Festival Animatricks in Helsinki. Animatricks was supposed to happen in May last Spring but it was cancelled due to CVID19 situation. But NOW it’s really happening. The festival is filled with interesting animation

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Updated: January 12, 2021 by Elli Maanpää

+- Pihka Is My Name

+- PIHKA IS MY NAME Music Video: Elli Maanpää // Music: Pihka Is My Name – Henna Helasvuo and Lasse Turunen // Length: 02:23 min // 2020 // Pihka is an imaginary friend of a boy grown out of needing an imaginary friend. The single ‘+-‘ and video are about Pihka discovering the beauty of northern nature

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Updated: January 9, 2021 by Elli Maanpää

Augmented Paintings in TAFF

ELLI MAANPÄÄ AUGMENTED PAINTINGS (TAFF) DATE: 21 Aug – 25 Aug 2019 PLACE: Manilla, Helsinki, Finland Next week my Augmented Paintings and I will be attending the awesome TAFF – Turku Animated Film Festival. Here is the official festival 2019 trailer done by the talented Sanni Lahtinen for you to Enjoy. The festival starts on Wednesday the 21st and

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Updated: January 12, 2021 by Elli Maanpää

Augmented Painting in Summer Yard of the National Museum

Exhibition - Elli Maanpää: Augmented Paintings - 18 Jun 2020 - Summer Yard National Museum of Finland, Helsinki Finland

ELLI MAANPÄÄ AUGMENTED PAINTINGS DATE: 18 Jun 2019 PLACE: Kansallismuseo, Helsinki, Finland My Augmented Paintings go to Summer Yard of the National Museum. The pop-up exhibition is on Tuesday the 18th of June at 3 pm to 6 pm in Helsinki. If you’re near Helsinki next week I welcome you to come experience the painted

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Updated: January 12, 2021 by Elli Maanpää

Triumphant Week

Musamation: Kaikki laulaa tavallaan // Animated music video for Loiskis, Elli Maanpää, 2017

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

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Updated: March 26, 2018 by Elli Maanpää

Motion Graphic: L’Opéra de Lille

Elli Maanpää motion graphic illustration

MOTION GRAPHIC: L’OPÉRA DE LILLE In the Spring 2017 I had a chance to participate in the Euranim Videomapping workshop that took part in Lille France as a part of Fête de l’anim animation festival. During the workshop over 50 students over the world created visuals to project onto the front wall on to the L’Opéra de

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Tags: animation | gif | motion graphic

Updated: November 23, 2020 by Elli Maanpää

Pikku Kakkonen

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

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Posted: January 11, 2018 by Elli Maanpää

On My Way to Something Big… but Little

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

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Updated: January 21, 2018 by Elli Maanpää

Trip To OIAF

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

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Posted: October 1, 2017 by Elli Maanpää

I Am An Animation Animal

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

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