Elin Adler is a fan of made up characters and worlds.
She studied Modelmaking, Design and Digital Effects at IADT, Ireland (2011-2015), and has worked with movie and theatre magic since 2012 in Ireland, USA, Sweden and Denmark.
Elin has experience with props, puppets, specialty costume, stage design, character design, sculpting, painting, fabrication, and dabbled with makeup design and all sorts of materials.
Get in touch if you are curious or have a collaboration in mind!
CV below
Curriculum Vitae
2025 exhibition model for Malmö Stadsarkiv
2025 custom plush for Django Denmark
2025 Props assistant/on set props SVT ´Sommarlov´
2025 Props assistant, modelmaker and scenic painter ‘De Forbandede År 3 - Frihedens Pris’ (Snowglobe/Solid Entertainment)
2025 Set and props assistant, modelmaker, props on set, scenic painter ‘Så Byggdes Sverige’ (SVT) Malmö
2024 Costume and makeup design, props, puppet maker ‘Det Var En Gång En Pojke Som Inte Kunde Bli Rädd’, Teater Sagohuset, Lund
2024 Props, hair and makeup design 'Nattväktarnas Hemlighet' at Kulturen i Lund i samarbete med Teater Sagohuset
2024 Stage, costume and makeup design for 'Blommornas Taggar' at Teater Jalada, Malmö
2024 Stage, costume and makeup design for 'Nalle Havsöga' at Operaverkstan, Malmö Opera
2024 Fabrication of giant baby head for Moomsteatern and the play 'Alla Heter Knut', Malmö
2023 Pre production Nalle Havsöga
2023 Stage design for 'Gränsland' at St Johannes Kyrka, Malmö 2023
2022 1:1 Model of League of Legends character Pantheon, commissioned by Build A Rocket for Riot Games, Malmö/Berlin 2022/2023
2022 Paintings for Malmöfestivalen, Commissioned by FYC for Malmö Stad
2022 Design and build for mascot suit and magic wagon for Mando Diao, Europe tour 2022
2022 Costume and props for 'Kvinnolinjen' by Eva Ekengren, Malmö
2022 Stage and costume design, props for 'Du Ljuger', Teater Sagohuset, Lund
2021 Specialty costume for 'Här Kommer Natten', Månteatern, Lund
A commission by scenic designer Evelina Johansson to build a teddy bear suit.
2020 Public art installation for Malmö Stad’s street project ‘Vinter i City’
(Art project with a free brief, where I created a live installation that looped every five mins, accompanied by music/soundscape by Margie Jean Lewis. )
2020/2019 Scenic designer and puppetmaker at Teater 23, Malmö
Stage design for the play 'Drakungar 'by Iben West.
2019 Prop maker at Teater Halland, Varberg
Prop cakes for kids play Tårtbagaren.
2019 Prop/modelmaker at Kulturen i Lund
Miniature model and props for exhibition ‘Jag Ser Dig’ about photographer Ida Ekelund.
2019 Puppet maker ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at Göteborgs Stadsteater
I created puppet versions of Audrey II for Little Shop of Horrors.
2018 Moldmaker ‘Ture Sventon’ at Effektstudion/Göran Lundström, Stockholm
Casting and molding parts
2018 Creature designer and maker for the play ‘Väsen’ at Teater23, Malmö
Alien creature performing suit/puppet for the children's play Väsen ('Creature').
Link to reviews (in Swedish) in Skånska Dagbladet and Sydsvenskan
2017-2018 Teacher at Malmö Folkhögskola. I taught English, Swedish and creative classes such as mask making and DIY/art projects.
2014-2016 Special Effects Artist at Legacy Effects, Los Angeles CA
At this legendary FX shop in Los Angeles I worked mainly in Art Department, Model Shop, Paint and Fabrication Department, furthering all my modelmaking skills learning from highly qualified artists and industry veterans. This company takes on many productions at the same time, and it is common to move fast between projects and interdisciplinary departments as well as on set. Using tons of varying materials (fabric, foam, rubber, metal, paints, 2 part component plastics, fiberglass etc) and techniques (molding, casting, sewing, sculpting, painting, hard edge modeling) I've worked on movies such as Jurassic World, The Shape of Water, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Terminator Genisys and many commercials like Call of Duty, Bank of America, AmPm and TV shows such as Gray's Anatomy, Colony and The Expanse.
Watch behind the scenes with Apatosaurus
Modelmaker at Bowsie Workshop
Dublin, (2012 - 2014) 2015
In 2015 I worked on the stop motion animation short called A Terrible Hullabaloo about the Easter Rising. As I had interned and worked with the company on several occasions before I was glad to be part of the modelmaking team for a film that the Dublin based FX shop wrote, directed and produced, requiring hand made puppets, props and sets.
Watch a Terrible Hullabaloo and watch the making of video
Modelmaker at Ardmore Studios, Bray, 2014
I worked on a large number of set props for Penny Dreadful season 2, including 125 ventriloquist dolls, tomb stones and a bath for Dr Frankenstein. I mainly ran molds, cleaned up and assembled cast parts and created the final paint design for most of the dolls.
See behind the scenes of Evelyn Poole's dolls
2013 Design and build of 7 awards for Blackrock Animation Film Festival
2012 Stage props Mayan Temple props for The Button Factory, Dublin
2011-2015 BA in Modelmaking, Design and Digital effects at IADT, Dún Laoghaire