The Last Button Before Vacuuming
A shy pearl button must unite the mismatched citizens beneath a sofa before the weekly vacuum swallows their lint-built city.
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The story
Purl has spent years pretending to be part of a lost checker set in the miniature settlement of Under-Sofa. When a roaring vacuum nozzle descends early, she recruits a brass coat button, two googly eyes, and a bent zipper pull to thread every district together into an escape sling. The feature uses fully synthetic stop-motion-style characters, macro textile textures, and no human likenesses.
- Original title
- The Last Button Before Vacuuming
- Country / region
- United States
- Genres
- Fantasy · Comedy · Action
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 77:00
- Director
- Opal Threadwell
Creative process
Humans retain final control over script, casting intent, performance direction, shot selection, continuity, edit, sound, color, safety review, and release approval.
Completed on February 24, 2026 and theatrically released on March 11, 2026; completed and released as of July 17, 2026. Human-authored brief and shot list; supervised current-model generation; manual edit; licensed sound and color finishing; legal, safety and technical quality control.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75%
- Creative method
- Synthetic animation
- Format
- Animation
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85:1
- Frame rate
- 24
- Delivery format
- DCP 2K Flat + ProRes 422 HQ archival master
- Subtitles
- English · French · German · Korean · Japanese · Thai