WeTransfer : Cancel Now. Massive rights grab.

e here at danklife have been pro WeTransfer since they pretty much started. For sending out files to clients and sharing work, it was a very easy, “post it, send and link and forget it” kind of service. No permissions to manage, no, “Running out of space” to manage by hand, etc…

Then we noticed they were sold to a somewhat slimy Private Equity group and were keeping an eye on it in case they started doing the shitty stuff Private Equity does. The uploads started failing a bit more, but whatever, we could live with that. BUT they just did a HOLY SHIT massive rights grab on anything you post on there with a TRANSFERABLE license. Which means, yeah, we can sell your shit on Getty or other stock sites. Yeah, my clients will love that.

Anyways, cancel your accounts now. Here a screengrab of the updates terms and a link to the video Jeremy found where they talk about it.

Portfolio Updates!

Just dropped a bunch of new imagery into the portfolio. Lots of renders and retouching to check out.

New Work in the Wild! Specialized

Looks like some more stuff we did is coming online at Specialized. Some lifestyle, some high end product, some have renders in them as well. Check it out and buy some nice bikes ;)

New Work in the Wild: At the Edge of the End

Some album art I did for We are Parasols just went live for their new album, “At the Edge of the End”. Fun abstract doodle using Luka noise for the ground.

New Work In the Wild: Specialized

Looks like a bunch of work we have been doing for Specialized is going live throughout their website. Take a peek around. Some serious heavy lifting on the hero shots. Shiny bike frames and helmets are no joke. Also, a good amount of background renders in various imagery which is always fun. Really purty bikes. ;)

New Work in the Wild! Nike SB Ishod Wair

Some stuff we worked on with the nice people at Big Giant just went live on Nike SB.

Photography by Jerry Buttles.

Pretty fun being a crusty old skater myself. Sweepers and laybacks, like everyone else my age ya know?

Pretty cool custom couch. Was asked to keep it very film-like. So a lot of little subtle tweaks going on.

Any of you Portland people out there, try to stay warm and stay off that ice… yeeesh…

New work in the wild: Nike and Specialized.

Have some work for Specialized appearing on the interwebs and a bunch of patch swaps and build-outs from AI files for Nike as well. It's always fun to find it out in the wilds.

New Work in the Wild: Specialized Roubaix

Got some new work out there in the wild. Check it out ! Specialized Roubaix. I get to render out all sorts of different backgrounds for this stuff ;)

New Stuff!

Holy crap, would you look at that, I finally got around to adding more stuff to the portfolio today. Thanks to the client who pushed out to EOD, you know who you are, LOL!

New Work in the Wild: Specialized

Some interesting retouching and grading work we did for Specialized went live a little while ago. Really fun glass work and toning going on on these. The lighting was really nice to work with.

So I guess we will be adding these to the portfolio update soon as well!

Art Director: Pete Panciera

Senior Designer: Walton Brush

Photographer: Yossiel Rodriguez

Producer: Erick Marcheschi

Post + Retouching: Danklife

Portfolio updates incoming!

Working on getting some portfolio updates posted some time soon and thought I would drop a preview since it’s been a hot minute since an update here. Just have not had a ton of free time to sort it all out. Hopefully, before May I can start getting these things live. Some fun stuff in here!

More Talking Heads and some new portfolio stuff.

Added some new stuff to the portfolio the other day, some renders and some serious color ups / product swaps. I really do not enjoy making those galleries for some reason, lol!

And for whatever reason, I am really digging early live Talking Heads. It’s so stripped down yet holds up as full songs. Some real artistry going on without just doing anything flashy.

New Work in the Wild!

Some renders we did went live on the Specialized site not too long ago. The lighting on these was pretty complicated and really happy with the results. I’ll post a screenshot of the set when I get some free time to dive back into it.