Platinum A' Design Award Winner 2020
This captivating frame from Yen C Chen's award-winning animation demonstrates remarkable achievement in contemporary character design, successfully synthesizing disparate visual vocabularies into a cohesive and emotionally resonant creation, the work participates in ongoing dialogues within animation and illustration communities regarding the potential for character design to convey complex emotional and thematic content through seemingly simple formal choices, the designer's decision to construct the protagonist from stacked cylindrical segments introduces a visual language suggesting both vulnerability and resilience, the compressed spring-like form implying potential energy and optimistic forward momentum, the incorporation of detailed astronaut equipment references humanity's collective aspirations toward exploration and discovery while the deliberately approachable pig character grounds these cosmic ambitions in warmth and accessibility, technically the work exhibits sophisticated understanding of three-dimensional rendering principles including subsurface light scattering that lends the pink surfaces convincing organic luminosity, careful management of specular and diffuse reflection on varied material surfaces, and atmospheric depth construction through selective focus that guides viewer attention while suggesting spatial environment, the chromatic strategy employing predominantly warm pink tones establishes immediate emotional warmth and approachability while the cooler metallic helmet elements introduce visual sophistication and thematic complexity without disrupting tonal harmony, the background population of similar figures creates narrative context suggesting community, shared experience, or collective journey, compositionally the work balances dynamic asymmetry with stable centralization, the figure's slight offset energizing the frame while maintaining clear hierarchical focus, viewers might contemplate what forms of simple happiness the title references and how the juxtaposition of earthly creature with space exploration equipment might suggest that contentment accompanies us wherever we venture
The Chinese zodiac in that year is the pig, so Yen C designed the sliced pig, and it's a pun in "many hot movies" in Chinese. The characters are very happy, just in line with the channel's image has always wanted to give the audience the feeling. And combine four movies elements into the video. Children who are playing can best show pure happiness, and hope that the audience will have the same feeling when watching the movie.