No. 010, in six platesWhiterilla
One white gorilla, a great many black ones, and no doubt at all about who is in charge.
Whiterilla is rendered rather than drawn: soft sculpted fur, studio light, and a darkness so deep it swallows the background whole. The palette is almost entirely black, charcoal and white, with only the eyes adding colour, amber in the crowd and red or pink in the white gorilla. Every plate tells the same joke with a straight face: one pale figure among a sea of dark ones.
In the hero plate the white gorilla stands with arms crossed and chin up while the black gorillas around it look on with yellow eyes. Another catches it on all fours on a mossy rise, glancing sideways. One shrinks it to a small grey figure deep in the shadows, the darkest image in the set. Elsewhere it stands on a dim shoreline in front of a crowd, poses in three-quarter view with red eyes, and in the closest plate scowls straight out at us, arms folded over a grey chest.
This is a dark-mode series through and through. Most plates leave the upper third black, so the clock and widgets sit on pure shadow, and the white gorilla lands in the middle like a spotlit soloist. The crowd fills the bottom, giving the dock a deep, textured base. White labels are legible everywhere; the one plate to watch is the close-up, where gorilla faces fill the frame right up to the top edge.
For anyone who likes their phone dark and a little defiant, and for people who have been the odd one out and rather enjoyed it. Arms Crossed and On All Fours are free in full resolution; the other four are premium.
Arms folded, chin up, the only pale face in the room.
Try each one on before you save it.
Tap any plate to hang it on the Lock Screen, then switch to the Home Screen to see it behind your apps. This is the same preview the app gives you, on your own phone, with your own clock.
Every plate here can be ordered as an unframed matte print, from A$59 with free shipping. Or hang three side by side: any three plates from Whiterilla, 8 × 16 in each, for A$179.
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Plate IArms Crossed -
Plate IIFace to Face -
Plate IIIThe Shoreline -
Plate IVRed Eyes -
Plate VOn All Fours -
Plate VIDeep in the Shadows
How Whiterilla wears.
Dark, defiant, moody, deadpan. Soft-lit 3D animal render, sized for every iPhone up to 2160 × 4800.
On the Lock Screen
The black upper sky in Arms Crossed puts the clock on pure shadow, with the white gorilla glowing just beneath it.
On the Home Screen
Near-black grounds keep white labels sharp, and the crowd of dark gorillas gives the dock a deep base.
Full resolution, every model
Each plate is delivered at the exact size of your iPhone's screen, up to 2160 × 4800, so nothing is stretched or soft at the edges.
- Shadow black#000000
- Charcoal#202020
- Gunmetal#404040
- Snow fur#FFFFFF
- Amber eye#FFD700
Free plates, and the rest.
Open Whiterilla in pxCream and preview any plate on your Lock Screen first. Prices come from the App Store in your region and are shown in the app before you buy.
Whiterilla
Two free platesFree
Full resolution, saved straight to Photos.
A single premium plate10 credits
Yours for good: re-download it any time, on this iPhone, at no extra cost.
pxCream UnlimitedMonthly
Every premium plate in Whiterilla and the rest of the gallery, for as long as you subscribe.
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About Whiterilla.
Is there a Whiterilla plate that is almost all black?
Deep in the Shadows. The gorilla is small and dim, sitting low in the frame, so the screen reads as nearly solid black.
Is the white gorilla meant to be albino?
The pink and red eyes suggest so, but the collection is about contrast more than biology: one pale figure in a dark crowd, shown six ways.
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Whiterilla, in your pocket.
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