Yummy IP插画 by Du Qingyu and Zhang Jun is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 平面、插画与视觉传达设计 Competition Category.

铜平面· 2025

Yummy IP插画

by Du Qingyu and Zhang Jun

Client: Joy Studio

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 平面 Category

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The Design

About Yummy IP插画

这组插画的灵感源于捕捉日常生活中的简单快乐。色彩搭配旨在营造愉悦的氛围,唤起人们的快乐情绪。角色对食物的热爱通过他们手持食物时的面部表情和身体变化展现出来。这组插画可应用于品牌推广和产品包装,以提升品牌识别度并满足用户的情感需求。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Yummy IP插画是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Yummy IP插画将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Yummy IP插画出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This is a set of 3D IP illustrations. It is a visual presentation of people's spiritual demands in a fast-paced life, exploring the pursuit of emotional comfort through characters and food. Compared with other designs, it focuses on the details of life and sees the big picture from the small. The image has exaggerated big eyes and simple shapes, which are highly recognizable and cute. Such a childlike design can easily arouse people's resonance with simple happiness.
Dimensions & Packaging: Image size 1800Pixels x 1800Pixels
Tags: character design, food, colorful, illustration, happiness
Production Technology: This set of illustrations uses 3D modeling technology, with the help of C4D to build models of cartoon characters and food, set proportions, and shapes. In the early design stage, collect inspiration, study popular cartoon styles and audience preferences, and determine the direction of high-saturation colors and simple and exaggerated shapes. Arranging light sources, enhance visual impact and artistic appeal. Use Octane renderer to render high-quality artworks.
Design Challenge: 1. How to stand out among many food-themed designs is the primary challenge.
2. From the historical perspective of illustration development, traditional hand-painted illustrations are deeply rooted, and there are many stereotypes in the process of transformation to 3D digitalization.
3. Society's perception and demand for illustrations are constantly changing, and how to make the work fit the expectations of different social groups has also become a big challenge.
Research: The study revolves around the creation and application of 3D cartoon illustrations, using an interdisciplinary research type. With the help of literature, the development and application of 3D cartoon illustrations were sorted out, classic cases were analyzed, and online user surveys were conducted. The study shows that the unique style of 3D cartoon illustrations can meet the emotional demands of users, can be applied to brand promotion and product packaging, and enhance brand recognition.
Inspiration: This set of illustrations is inspired by capturing the simple joys of daily life. The pictures are constructed with brightly colored elements, symbolizing the colorful and vibrant life. The characters' desire for food is the instinctive pursuit of human beings for material enjoyment, it reflects our spiritual yearning for simple happiness in a busy world. Food is like the little things in life that make us happy, reminding us that happiness is often hidden in ordinary daily life.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2023 in Beijing and finished in June 2023 in Beijing
Operation Flow: An interesting picture is formed by combining the characters' body shapes with the food's characteristics. The cartoon characters' desire for food is highlighted. Combining the food that people are familiar with and love can easily trigger the public's emotional resonance. The unique 3D cartoon style, bold use of colors, and vivid images stand out from the crowd of visual content and can quickly attract users' attention.
Team Members: Du Qingyu
Zhang Jun
Image Credits: Du Qingyu