Hello.
This is me, Elanna Allen. I design imaginary worlds that capture the joy of being human.
I create a unified design language for these imaginary worlds that trigger an instictive jolt happiness. Through study and practice, I have devised a consistent color palette and anatomical shapes that creates and emotional reactions in the viewer. I have studied anatomy in life and through cadaver dissection to understand the underpinnings of character features that express personality.
You can see my hand drawn, and hand sculpted work on this site, as well as the television shows and a smattering of my AI creations based on diffusion models trained solely on my original art.
My Story
It started with a childhood love of sculpting tiny things, that morphed into the making of tiny clay stop motion movies that blossomed into a career of creating colorful happy worlds for animation and picture books. I studied fine art at Brown University, illustration at RISD, and animation at the National Film Academy in Prague, FAMU.
My first love is brainstorming ideas and working in teams towards a collective creative output, a la animation productions. It would be a dream to explore new frontiers at Google Creative Lab with people who have vastly different areas of expertise.