Elle Gabriel
Filmmaker, Storyteller, Animator, Artist, Content Creator, Cinematographer, Director, Actress, Singer, Storyteller, VoiceOver and more
Personal Profile
Artist Statement
An artist, animator, storyteller, filmmaker, actress, singer, creative content maker who wants to move people visually, emotionally and spiritually.
Awards
2023 Shorts Film Festival - 5 Films [animation and classic] selected in Shorts Festival
2022/23 NAHS - Vice President
2022/23 Art Club Council and Creator
2022 Scholastic Gold Key Winner - Print
2022 Chalk Festival - Honorable Mention (1st time doing chalk art)
2022 Asked to Design/Paint Skateboard Halfpipe Solo
2022 Concepts Art Show - 5 pieces shown along with slideshow of work
2022 - 11th grade Honors Award for Art, Berkeley
Animations and Shorts Portfolio
Art/Animation BIO
Education
2022
CalArts Visual Storytelling
2022
UCLA Digital Filmmaking
2022-2023
Berkeley Prep - Animation II
2021 - 2022
Berkeley Prep - Animation 1
2021 - 2022
Berkeley Prep - Advanced Art
CalArts Character Design
2021
Berkeley Prep - Film
2022-2023
Berkeley Prep - AP Art
2022-2023
Accepted and attended the California Institute for the Arts - Workshop in Visual Storytelling over the summer 2022 to work on my storytelling characters / ideas
Accepted and attended 2 weeks at UCLA - Digital Filmmaking Summer Institute where I worked on 2 short films. I was awarded Cinemaphotographer and Production Designer and learned more about all the facets of film making and story telling. Created posters, worked with premier pro to edit film and deciding scenes to shoot.
Senior year where I work with Blender for 3D skills, hone my animation experience into various forms of storytelling including more story boarding, world design, character design, narrative and editing.
Create projects with art from concept to design to form utilizing a variety of formats, materials and digital applications. Building on existing art experience and skills ability to render in most formats, materials and formats.
Working in Final Cut Pro to edit and tell creative stories with film as Creator, Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Film Crew and Story Teller. Work in a variety of story making formats including stop motion, abstract, documentary and traditional. Working on screen play writing and experimental storytelling.
Accepted and attended the California Institute for the Arts - Workshop in Character Design over the summer 2021 to work on my character, world and layout design skills
Junior year where I learned all about the basics of animation in Animation I. We covered the history and future of animation and worked with various forms of animation including ToonBoom, pegging, 2D and 3D styles and storyboarding
Junior year I have covered using all kinds of formats, features, and mixed media in my projects. I've discovered I love color. I painted my first oil painting from a photo I took of my friend doing flips to an acrylic skeleton head I painted in the pointillism method. I have been asked to paint live in our Concepts art show this spring and was asked to design and paint a skateboard half pipe to be completed before the end of the school year.