Olena Tronina
Olena Tronina
2D Animator & Rotoscope Artist · Brussels
"I've drawn since before I could write. Everything after has been practice."
Frame by frame, by hand — for feature film and for their own sake.
Rotoscope animation on The Peasants and Rock Bottom, made at MoreFilm in Kyiv. Character design, illustration and drawing, now from Brussels.
Available for studio work, commissions and prints →
Sony Pictures Classics · 2023
A fully painted animated feature. Frame-by-frame rotoscope work combined with oil painting and hand-drawn classical technique.
Junior Animator → Animator · Toon Boom Harmony
MoreFilm · 2024
An animated feature produced for Spain, animated frame by frame at MoreFilm in Kyiv.
Animator · Art Supervisor · Project Manager
Behance
Digital illustration, concept art, character design and animation work spanning over a decade of practice.
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She joined as a junior animator on a Sony Pictures Classics feature and moved up through the production — animating, then supervising other animators' frames and running the workflow.
Rotoscope animation on The Peasants.
Rotoscope animation on Rock Bottom, in Toon Boom Harmony.
Supervised the artistic quality of animation frames and coordinated artists during production.
Managed the production workflow and coordinated communication between artists.
Paint Tool SAI · personal
Paint Tool SAI · personal
Paint Tool SAI · personal
Paint Tool SAI · character
Paint Tool SAI · still life
Paint Tool SAI · character
Clip Studio · book cover
Watercolour on paper · Academy
Digital painting
Paint Tool SAI · from photograph
Pencil on paper · Academy
Illustrator · self-initiated print
Illustrator · licensed character
Illustrator · transfer tattoos
Illustrator · transfer tattoos
Illustrator · vector
Illustrator · on Shutterstock
Illustrator · on Shutterstock
Illustrator · vector
Illustrator · vector
Illustrator · on Shutterstock
Illustrator · vector
Illustrator · on Shutterstock
Photoshop
I'm a 2D animator and digital artist with more than a decade of work across animation, illustration and film production.
I contributed rotoscope animation to The Peasants, a Sony Pictures Classics release and one of the most visually distinctive animated films of recent years. That project is what I do best: meticulous frame-by-frame work, where drawing and storytelling meet.
My background spans the full production pipeline — from painting individual frames to supervising artistic quality and coordinating animation teams as Art Supervisor and Project Manager at MoreFilm in Kyiv.
Alongside film I work as a freelance illustrator and concept artist, making character designs, digital paintings and visual narratives for clients in publishing, gaming and design.
I'm now based in Brussels, and looking for work with animation studios, film productions and creative teams across Europe.
She was drawing long before any of this was a career.
The watercolour is from her school years in Ukraine — a Kupala night, dancers circling the fire, painted from imagination. It won her one of several regional art prizes; the photograph below it is one of those ceremonies.
That was two decades before a frame of hers appeared in a Sony Pictures Classics feature. The technique changed. The reason for making pictures did not.
Available for animation contracts and rotoscope work with studios and productions in Europe. Full CV on request.
Character design, illustration and concept art. Every brief is quoted individually — tell me the use and the deadline and you'll have a price the same week.
Selected works are available as prints, including signed limited editions. Ask for the current list.
Prints available. Shipped worldwide from Brussels. Commissions on request.