An updated showreel

A newer version of the old showreel:

3d animation showreel from Espen Alme Ellingsen on Vimeo.

Adventure illustrations

The Monkey made an adventure for D&D for the other blog, and to go with it some illustrations:

First, the cave entrance, inhabited by a bear:

Next up, every adventure should have a puzzle:

(saying "friend" in any language did not help here)

Finally, the "boss fight" - in this one the final treasure is guarding itself:

Monster Mayhem (again...)

From the top, these beasties are: hippogriff, harpy, ghoul, giant spider, giant spider, bugbear, giant toad and animated hammer.

You can read more about them on "The Realms of Auria" blog.

Fantasy Friday: Adventurers

A few fantasy inspired characters

The Donald

The Monkey has great respect for Donald (the Duck that is). The other one.... not so much.

An attempted advent calendar - aka. better luck next Christmas

Another short animation about Measles

Here's another short (and still silent) clip the Monkey did for the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. A fair bit's been rehashed from the last one, but there's some new stuff.

Measles 2 from Espen Alme Ellingsen on Vimeo.


If nothing else, it was fun having a go at traditional drawn animation again, and  using the Cintiq to draw directly on the screen is quite neat. With some more practice, who knows what a Monkey could make (if he only could find the time).