Thrilling characters, a fantastic blow-up aesthetic, and a very unique touch of nostalgia: We met Jack Sachs, one of the most exciting 3D illustrators and animators
Illustrator Jack Sachs was one of the first to take off into 3D spheres with his work. He made smileys float through the Tate Britain, cabbages roll out of still lifes, and pencils dive through the historic parquet like dolphins. That was seven years ago, and since then, his work, full of color, imagination and his own stunning style, could be seen in The New York Times, The New Yorker, at Apple, Nike, and in numerous exhibitions around the world. We visited the Londoner, who’s been living in Berlin for many years, in his studio in Neukölln and talked to him about tools and techniques, why the process is most important to him – and why some people say they would love to eat his work.
Weird, funny and unique characters are Jack Sachs’s specialty,like the new “monster“ (above) or the large inflatable for the the music festival Primavera Sound in Barcelona (top)
Almost ten years ago, you had a bad accident that forced you to give up hand drawing. Jack Sachs: Yeah, here you see the scar. We just arrived at a party in London, my friend and I were show fighting and I fell into a glass. It went really deep into my arm, cut my nerve. I couldn’t move my fingers and the doctors told me that I would probably not be able to draw again. That was really difficult because I was constantly drawing. I never used a computer for artworks, I just had my sketchbooks.
