Milky Elephant is a collective based in New York. Team Milky consists of Karl Ackermann, Eun-Ha Paek and Mumbleboy (a.k.a. Kinya Hanada). We make installations, games, illustrations, music videos, animated series, and designs for ourselves and for clients.

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For more information, contact us at info@milkyelephant.com.

Karl Ackermann

Karl has designed games and time-wasters for places like Nickelodeon, MSN, Wildbrain, and Old Navy. Recently, he collaborated with Mumbleboy on an installation for the American Museum of Moving Image and the Wood Street Galleries. Before striking out on his own, Karl was an intern at Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group and developed games at Broderbund's Living Books.

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Eun-Ha Paek

Eun-Ha's animations have screened at festivals and venues such as Sundance Online Film Festival, ResFest, SXSW Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, comedycentral.com, and UCLA Film and Television Archive. Her work has also been mentioned in NYTimes, Communication Arts, Zoo Magazine and the Korea Times.

She was born in Seoul, Korea and spent her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Los Angeles. She then attended highschool in New Jersey and studied Animation at Rhode Island School of Design. Most of her 20s were spent in San Francisco. She is currently in Brooklyn, NY.

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Mumbleboy

Kinya Hanada was born in Yokohama, Japan and grew up there until the age of 13 when his family moved to Southern California. He attended UC Davis majoring in Art and Rhode Island School of Design in Painting. While attending RISD, Kinya started making art with computer graphics. He moved to New York City after graduation where he has been since working as a freelancer doing web animations and print illustrations. He also makes his own animations which have been shown at various web sites and film festivals.

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