Elenor Kopka
Animation/Illustration
Elenor Kopka is an animator and visual artist from Germany, currently based in France. She has a particular interest in textures, patterns, and eerie transformations. At art school in Eastern Germany she developed a love for woodcut and lithography, which continues to influence her perception of shapes and contrasts to this day.
A non-exhaustive list of her influences includes Nintendo 64 graphics, Yokai, Mort Garson, Shintaro Sakamoto, the Fleischer brothers, Japanese ceramics, and pastry-making competitions. Elenor enjoys working with music and creating non-narrative visuals. She has had the honor of producing images and animations for clients such as Adult Swim, MTV, Pictoplasma, ZEIT, Giphy, and Condé Nast. She has also art-directed and illustrated a game that is available on the Nintendo Switch.
In her animated projects, Kopka primarily works digitally in 2D, focusing heavily on frame-by-frame animation. Even though she creates her visuals on the computer, she strives to infuse them with an analogue, tactile quality that echoes pencil drawing, airbrushing, and printmaking. She loves experimenting with textures, patterns, superimpositions, and contrasts. With her initial focus almost exclusively on black and white, driven by a fascination with distilling images to their essence and perfecting shapes. Although she has since incorporated colour into my work, Kopka still holds a particular love for working with light and shadow.
