Butts
Studios

Slate · 04 · Animated shorts

The Little
Things

Working cuts

Wordless · Hand-drawn

Three chalk-line characters on black: a round-headed one, a surprised one with a long neck, and an egg-shaped one

The idea

White chalk-line characters on black. They have no names, and nobody says a word. Each short follows one small act that matters, told with music, sound and a hand-lettered card or two.

"In life, it's all about the little things."

The same characters started on clothes: they're the faces of The Little Things line from Runwae Apparel, hoodie included.

First shorts

The Held Door. Someone holds a door, and it ripples through the whole block.

The Lost Glove. Found on a fence and returned, three neighbors later.

The Borrowed Charger. One cord, four phones, a whole evening.

The Wave. One of them waves first, every day, until someone waves back.

How it's made

The characters come straight from the original drawings. We animate them as they are, with a hand-drawn line that shimmers frame to frame. New poses are drawn in the same hand.