Category: 25/26 Principles of Character Animation

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…