Charming, stylish GIFs and drawings from the ever-talented Jack Cunningham

Date
5 November 2014

Jack Cunningham is a young illustrator and animator living in London, and he’s got life pretty well sorted out. By day he works at Nexus, creating GIFs and animations and cute characters in a building crammed full of weird, wonderful people all doing similar things. When I last dropped in to see him he had a book on his desk by a guy called Guy Billout which he had been waiting for with bated breath for a long while. I had never come across Guy’s work, but I’m now as obsessed with him as Jack was/is.

When I looked at Jack’s work a few months later to see what he’d been up to, I noticed that his drawings have changed. Somehow they’ve become so much more refined, his style is leaning towards old, French illustration with muted colour palettes and fusty little characters going about their day-to-day business. Jack’s got it all: an eye for detail, a developed style, and a pure, unadulterated passion for his craft, and for others that also spend their lives working at it. Good for him.

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Liv Siddall

Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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