
Costumes on their own have gained a lot more importance as details are now more essential to the audience, and in the same manner, they have become a stronger part of storytelling. Textures, shapes, and colors are now so close to reality that the digital-animated world becomes almost palpable. We are witnessing the most glorious moment of technology, where computer-animated films look so real you feel that you live in that same world. With the technological advances from the past years, computer-animated films are now as real as they have never been before.


After all, the main purpose of a costume designer is to help bring a character to life and tell its story through costumes.

However, this is slowly changing, and costume designers are starting to gain their own spot in animated films. Creating costumes has been part of the character design process, which the animator or character designer will do. Computer-animated films, just like other types of animation, don’t have an established role of a costume designer, or at least that is how it is in most cases.
