Juan Pablo Machado

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Juan Pablo Machado
NationalityColombian
French
Education École Émile-Cohl
Notable work Lofi Girl

Juan Pablo Machado is a Colombian-French artist. He is best known for his animation work on the channel Lofi Girl.

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Early life

Originally from Colombia, [1] Juan Pablo Machado moved to Lyon in 2013 to study at the École Émile-Cohl after a stint at the Bogotá art school. [2]

He left the Émile-Cohl school in 2018. [3]

Career

Lofi Girl

In 2017, during his last year of study, he decided to respond to a call for tenders received by his school. [4] [5] [6] The call for tenders comes from the YouTube channel ChilledCow (now Lofi Girl), which broadcasts lo-fi hip hop music continue. [7] She used an image from the movie Whisper of the Heart to Studio Ghibli [8] showing the character of Shizuku studying. ChilledCow has already seen its videos deleted for copyright infringement, so it wants to call on an artist. [4]

The founder of the channel wants "a student busy revising her courses, with a visual to the Miyazaki". According to Machado, "I didn’t know anything about hip-hop lofi nor did I draw my style from Japanese animation. I took it as a challenge". [7] It was also a first for Machado, who is used to working on paper and works directly on graphic tablet. [7] He then decides to send sketches to ChilledCow. [2] Several positions for the character are tested, including a lying position at the end of which the character had to return to its initial position, which is not retained because it is too long to animate. [9] As for the background, it is left black at the origin, to save time. [2] But the idea of scrolling through time emerges and it is then that Machado decides to make the La Croix-Rousse hill of Lyon appear by the window. [10] [11] [12]

References

  1. ↑ antival (2020-04-27). "Creador de Jade, la chica que escucha lo-fi hip hop en su pieza, nos contó qué está escribiendo". POUSTA (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-02-23.
  2. 1 2 3 "Pop Culture : la "lofi girl" du live Youtube "lofi hip hop radio" habite... à Lyon". actu.fr (in French). 2020-04-23. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
  3. ↑ Poillot, Laurent (2023-06-15). "La japan touch de Juan Pablo Machado". EEC (in French). Retrieved 2025-02-23.
  4. 1 2 Le dessous des images - ARTE (2023-10-20). Lofi girl : votre compagne de télétravail, star de YouTube - Le Dessous des images - ARTE . Retrieved 2025-02-23– via YouTube.
  5. ↑ Poillot, Laurent (2023-11-02). "Lofi Girl : comment l'animation de Juan Pablo Machado est devenue virale". EEC (in French). Retrieved 2025-02-23.
  6. ↑ "Pourquoi Lyon est-elle mise à l'honneur par la chaîne YouTube Lofi Girl ?". 20 Minutes (in French). 2023-12-13. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
  7. 1 2 3 Varlet, Apolline (2020-05-08). "L'actu des alumni // Ils personnalisent les grandes plateformes de lo-fi hip hop". EEC (in French). Retrieved 2025-02-23.
  8. ↑ "You Can Thank Studio Ghibli for YouTube's Lofi Anime Study Girl". CBR. 2020-07-06. Archived from the original on 2021-05-04. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  9. ↑ "A brief history of the Lofi Girl, the melancholic icon of the Gen Z". nss magazine. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
  10. ↑ "YouTube: la Lofi Girl, icône des amateurs de musique calme, disparaît mystérieusement". BFMTV (in French). 2023-04-11. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
  11. ↑ Histoire du jour: à la découverte de Jade, une star de YouTube made in Lyon (in French). 2024-01-03. Retrieved 2025-02-23– via www.bfmtv.com.
  12. ↑ "Juan Pablo Machado : l'artiste derrière l'animation de Lyon sur le live YouTube Lofi Beats". ourscom.fr (in French). 2020-04-04. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
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