The Vignette Compositor exists as a cascading series of transparent film plates, each layer etched with different scene elements—one holds character silhouettes, another environmental backdrops, a third atmospheric effects like swirling snow and glowing lanterns. These plates shimmer with frost that never melts, stacked vertically in an impossible column that rotates and shifts, aligning different combinations with each rotation. When layers align perfectly, they fuse momentarily into a single composite image before separating again, ready to create the next unique tableau.

It functions as the master compositor in the North Pole's ethereal film studio, blending character plates from across Christmas story traditions with environmental backdrops and atmospheric effects to create the distinct, layered scenes that define each bag tag.