Author: Wendy Huang

This 16-year-old “Button Girl” comes from a village that is extremely monotonous and lacks individuality. Everyone in this village is uniform. In this village, each person has a lifeless and strange-looking “companion doll” that reflects their inner selves.Each doll has an infant-like face with wide-open eyes, an animal-like body, and peculiar feet, all of which…

Logline The Button Girl:A 16-year-old girl in a numb, uniform button village creates a lively doll that defies the community’s eerie traditions, drawing fear and hostility that slowly consume her individuality. The 16-year-old Button Girl comes from a village where everyone is numb, uniform, and identical. In this village, each person must create a “Companion…

After we conducted a thorough observation of the design of the buttons and their application in real scenarios, we discovered that the initial connection between the head and the neck of the button figure was not logical. We then changed it to a neck that emerged from the middle of the head. At the same…

“Button Girl is a quiet and imaginative 16-year-old girl who expresses her emotions through sewing.Her doll, the Button Doll, is both her creation and her reflection: vivid, emotional, and innocent.While the villagers are an unfeeling mass, they are uniform, mechanical, and numb, becoming the collective villains of the story.In the character design, we deliberately contrasted…

By Me It presents a gloomy and peculiar tone, but at the same time retains a touch of childlike charm. It should not be too adult or rigid. Finally, a picture that can set the tone for the work was created. By Yining By Yining

The world of Button Village was inspired by an experiment of mapping human faces. When we reduced faces to small texture images, we realized they looked almost identical. So we replaced every human face with a button — a symbol of erased identity. We chose a desaturated palette of greys and muted tones to convey…