Ilka Vordahl, motion and 3D designer in Oslo

Most of motion is timing.
The rest is knowing when to stop.
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Oslo-born motion & 3D designer

Based in Oslo Animating for studios worldwide
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Freelance since 2021 Formerly lead animator at Holmfjord
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Hei. I make things movelike they have weight,and stop like they mean it.

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I’m a motion and 3D designer in Oslo. For nine years I’ve made product films, idents and title sequences for brands that want their things to feel real before anyone has held them.

I model, light, animate and comp everything myself, which means the person you brief is the person who presses render.

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My desk toy, rendered in Cycles: travertine, a UV checker and the ball from the top of this page.

Selected work

Six films · 2023–2026
01 · Fjell Audio
Hover for clay
01Fjell Audio Product filmCiclope shortlist2026Team of 3 · with Holmfjord
Role Direction, 3D, lightingView project →
Breakdown · the first frame of this site

One frame, five passes

  1. 01Blockout
    Primitives and a camera. Is the composition working before anything is pretty?
  2. 02Clay
    Every surface the same grey. Light and form have to carry the shot on their own.
  3. 03Light
    A 10° afternoon sun through a mullioned window, plus one soft fill from camera left.
  4. 04Colour
    Sage plaster, bone terrazzo, one tomato ball. Three colours, one accent.
  5. 05Comp
    The name painted on the wall, film grain and a vignette. Then it moves.
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Timing is the work.
The rest is taste.

Chrome sphere — reflections before anything else
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Things I make

Four kinds of brief
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Product films
Launch films and hero loops for hardware, beauty and food. Photoreal, lit like a studio shoot, animated like the thing is alive.
Hero film, 6 cutdowns, 12 stills, loops for web
Typical length15–45 s
02
Idents & titles
Channel idents, station graphics, conference openers and title sequences, with a system that other designers can extend.
3 idents, end board, toolkit file, motion guidelines
Typical length5–20 s
03
3D illustration
Stills for campaigns, packaging and editorial covers, built as real scenes so a still can become a film later.
4–10 key visuals, crops for every placement
Typical lengthStills
04
Real-time & web
Scenes for websites like this one: pre-rendered sequences, WebGL comps and interactive loops, handed over ready to build.
Frame sequences, passes, a working prototype
Typical lengthLoops
Process

From brief to final frame

A typical 30-second film takes five weeks. You see something moving by the end of week one, and nothing surprises you in week five.

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01 · Days 1–2
Brief
A one-hour call, then a written brief back to you with the length, the shots, the deliverables and a fixed price.
You get: A one-page brief and a quote
02 · Days 3–7
Styleframes
Three still frames rendered at full quality, so we agree on light, colour and materials before anything moves.
You get: 3 styleframes
03 · Days 8–12
Animatic
Every shot blocked in clay with timing locked to the edit or the music. The cheapest moment to change your mind.
You get: A timed grey animatic
04 · Days 13–30
Production
Animation, lighting and rendering, with a work-in-progress link every Friday.
You get: Weekly WIPs
05 · Days 31–35
Delivery
Final comp, grade and every cutdown and loop you asked for, plus the project files.
You get: Masters, cutdowns, stills, files
01 · Frames rendered in 2025
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About 128 hours of GPU time, mostly overnight, all on one workstation in Oslo.
02 · Clients since 2017
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From two-person startups to national broadcasters. Most came through another client.
03 · Typical 30-second film
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Brief to delivery, with a moving animatic by the end of week two.
04 · Clients who came back
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For a second film, a cutdown pack or the next launch.

Archive

Everything else since 2017 · hover a row

07

Brygge Coffee

Packaging loops

3D illustration

2025

Freelance

Open shot ↗

08

Nordlys TV

Channel rebrand

Idents & titles

2025

@Havn Studio

Open shot ↗

09

Tindra Ski

Product film

Product film

2025

Freelance

Open shot ↗

10

Vinter Festival

Title sequence

Idents & titles

2024

Freelance

Open shot ↗

11

Havn Studio

Studio showreel

Editing, 3D

2024

@Havn Studio

Open shot ↗

12

Kvist Furniture

Catalogue stills

3D illustration

2024

Freelance

Open shot ↗

13

Mørk Chocolate

Launch loops

Product film

2024

@Holmfjord

Open shot ↗

14

Salt & Stein

Restaurant opener

Idents & titles

2023

Freelance

Open shot ↗

15

Lumen Labs

Keynote opener

Real-time & web

2023

@Holmfjord

Open shot ↗

16

Tidevann Swim

Summer campaign

3D illustration

2023

Freelance

Open shot ↗

17

Nattlys Records

Album visualiser

Real-time & web

2022

Freelance

Open shot ↗

18

Grus Bikes

Product stills

3D illustration

2022

@Holmfjord

Open shot ↗

19

Hytte Co

Web loops

Real-time & web

2021

Freelance

Open shot ↗

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Holmfjord

Studio ident

Idents & titles

2019

@Holmfjord

Open shot ↗

Nine years, 41 clients and a few shelves of trophies I dust twice a year.

Awards and recognition(22)
Motion AwardsGold, product film2
ADC NorwayTwo silvers, one bronze3
Ciclope EuropeShortlist, 3D1
Vimeo Staff Pick6
Behance Motion Features9
Nordic Design AwardsBest title sequence1
Fjell Audio●Norrland Rail●Kjeks●Aurora Grid●Polar Knit●Solbær●Holmfjord●Tindra Ski●Brygge Coffee●Nordlys TV●Havn Studio●Vinter Festival●
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Notes from producers

“Ilka sent the first moving animatic on day eight. By then we’d already stopped worrying.”

Marte Solli Executive producer, Holmfjord
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Let's make something move

Booking November 2026 One film at a time
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Oslo · 59.91° N Replies within a working day
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