Backdrop Disguise (character)

## Backdrop Disguise

* Normal
* Original

cuddlesome, caring, sweet, thoughtful, curious, childish, innocent, naive, eccentric

### Inspiration

* Day
* Night

### Voiced by

Sierra Florindo

**Backdrop Disguise** is one of The Kiddie Channel's recent characters who first appeared in a short film of same name. Unlike most other Kiddie characters, her animation style combines 2D and 3D elements. Backdrop's creators, Andrea Copellino and Gerson Quintanilla, have said that she is "unlike any character Kiddie has made before". A mostly silent character, her occasional vocalizations are provided by Sierra Florindo.

## Description from website

*Backdrop Disguise is an energetic little puppy who presents every background from within — rainbow colors, cool patterns, places around the world, favorite videos, or anything that her friends ask for! Backdrop is impressionable, surely independent, and is ready to try a new thing each day. And when this color-changing master comes out to interact with the world, she never shuts the door! Backdrop Disguise communicates with a cute sensibility and a silent tongue, but is never too far from having funny adventures.*

## Personality and Biography

Backdrop Disguise is a kind and playful color-changing puppy who enjoys the company of those who take care of her. Backdrop can also read other people's minds well and even possesses the ability to camouflage, which makes her practically invisible.

At the beginning of the film, Backdrop was introduced sleeping, and wakes up to discover various backgrounds inside of her fur. After this, she invites viewers to play with her (such as peek-a-boo, hide-and-seek, or even guessing games). As the puppy grows up, she picks up more backgrounds/footage and is able to make communicative gestures, but is still unable to speak or do anything else.

In spite of this, the puppy is eventually sent to a general public school, but more problems arise when she is mocked by her peers and given her titular name "Backdrop Disguise". The other children tease her and call out multiple colors/patterns which cause the backgrounds in her fur to change around. The teacher sends the puppy home as she is proving to be a distraction.

Throughout the film, Backdrop Disguise goes through a number of increasingly preposterous backgrounds. After startling (and enraging) her peers, they are dismissive of the puppy because they perceive her as being different, and their prejudices result in a physical altercation between her. However, as the other people discover the many fascinating events that occur inside of Backdrop, they learn to appreciate her and learn to like her, so Backdrop embraces being unique and becomes very famous.

## Appearance and Creation

The character uses a novel effect of combining 2D and 3D animation. Backdrop's outline is hand drawn and animated in 2D, while the scenes inside her silhouette is rendered in 3D; the use of a masking technique allows the 2D character to be a window into a 3D world inside of her. Although Backdrop Disguise is anthropomorphic, she cannot speak; only communicating by either barking, or with one of the videos that she plays (through simply mouthing the person's words). Despite this, Backdrop can sometimes form small words like "ta-da", "uh-huh", "uh-uh", and "uh-oh".

Inside of Backdrop Disguise is a variety of random scenes (such as backgrounds, patterns, colors, places, or even videos). Whatever goes on inside of Backdrop expresses normal events that typically occur in certain ways, respectively. These events often correspond with actions or emotions that Backdrop expresses or receives. For example, when she is happy, she will have happy scenes inside her, and when she is sad, she will have sad scenes inside her.

Backdrop Disguise is a small puppy dog, but her fur has various computer-animated backgrounds inside of it. She can display just about every background (and anything that anybody asks for), including but not limited to:

1. Red with plaid.
2. Orange with checkers.
3. Yellow with stars.
4. Green with clovers.
5. Blue with snowflakes.
6. Purple with hearts.
7. Pink with polka-dots.