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Wetransfer illustrations4/27/2024 ![]() Making work for a service used in so many different countries, each animation also had to be understood everywhere. In the animation of a skater doing an ollie, the skateboard originally flipped, but the motion was too busy for the more subtle movements in the other scenarios. Ideas were scrapped or tweaked if they didn’t work with the rest. ![]() It was new for me to focus on a series like that.” It was important that the animations spoke the same language. So it was a lot of trying, but also very fun. “There were things that worked very well as an idea but didn’t work visually. The shoe fit on a conceptual level: something as mundane as feet made into something fun, just as WeTransfer aims to make file-sharing less dull. He was inspired to think of all the other things legs could do-the moonwalk, a happy jump-to act out the various messages. It was a pair of feet in tube socks and pink slides, one foot tapping, waiting impatiently for summer to come. While going through his archives, he found a recent animation that would prove perfect for the project. He was asked to create a visual treatment using his existing works as reference. WeTransfer gave Black Childish free reign to propose ideas to animate the messages that pop up while transferring files on the platform: a prompt asking for a password, a little something to ease an error message, or the equivalent of a high five when your transfer is complete. This ambiguous result was something the creative team at WeTransfer liked when they briefed him on a refresh of their well-known and loved brand animations, previously created by Alva Skog. ![]() He likes to break the smooth sheen associated with 3D with imperfections like grain and painterly textures that he adds with brush tools in 2D programs-blurring what’s what. Interestingly, he was mimicking this 3D look in 2D for some time before he learnt 3D modeling. His rounded figures have the plastic quality of vinyl toys. He returns to Martinique often in his work, depicting streetscapes, beach scenes, and characters from the tropical island in his fun, color-soaked style. For the last few years Black Childish has lived and worked in Amsterdam, first at an animation studio, and then going freelance at the start of 2023.
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