About · Ilka Vordahl
The person who presses render
The shelf above my desk, rendered. The real one has more dust.
I grew up in Tromsø, where the sun disappears for two months a year. I think that’s why I light everything like it’s the last hour of daylight.
After art school in Bergen I made channel idents at Nordlys TV, then spent four years as lead animator at Holmfjord, a small Oslo studio known for product films. In 2021 I went independent so I could make fewer, better things.
I work alone on most projects and with a small circle of producers, sound designers and editors when a film needs more hands. You always talk to me, and I always press render.
Experience
Independent motion & 3D designer
Lead animator, Holmfjord
Motion designer, Nordlys TV
BA Visual Communication
What I work in
01
Blender + Cycles
Modelling, lighting, rendering. Every frame on this site.
02
After Effects
Comp, type and the last 5% that makes it feel finished.
03
DaVinci Resolve
Grade and delivery masters.
04
Houdini
Liquids, cloth and anything that has to fall properly.
05
Substance 3D Painter
Worn edges and hand-made texture.
06
Framer
Sites like this one, built with the renders they show.
Nine years, 41 clients and a few shelves of trophies I dust twice a year.
Booking November 2026
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