Did you know that the background colors in Animals at the Office are symbolic? Each secondary character has a background color (e.g., the hawk's color is orange). Gator, the main character, takes on these other colors as he tries to act like them, but his color changes to red (for conflict) each time he realizes that it's not working out for him. As he finds the clarity to be himself, he loses these other colors, and his background turns white.