Iron Movie, Video and Animation Design · 2021
Capture The Moment Animation
by Kohki Kobori
- A' Design Award 2021 Iron Winner in Movie, Video and Animation Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Kohki Kobori
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 12,957
- Verification code BB35C2DF91 · Verify this award
About Capture The Moment Animation
Capture the Moment is a short animated film about the importance of timing in photography. The film shows individual shapes that move and slowly morph into new forms, building one perfect moment. The work is a cell animation, drawn frame by frame for fluid and organic movement. Style frames were first designed in Adobe Illustrator. Each frame was then animated with the timeline feature in Adobe Photoshop. Compiling, adjustment and finishing were carried out in Adobe After Effects. The result is a video of 1920 by 1080 pixels, viewed without any interaction.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Capture the Moment is a very special project because it took me around four months to create it. It is very detail-oriented because each frame per second has different shapes and elements moving and morphing slowly into different shapes, creating different objects. The video is entirely a cell animation made in Adobe Photoshop. This project was also created purely based on my past experience as a photographer without any external references/inspiration.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 1920 x 1080 px in .mp4 format
- Tags
- motion design, moment, camera, photography, capture, flash, cell animation, golden hour
- Production Technology
- Firstly, I designed style frames using Adobe Illustrator. Secondly, I animated it frame by frame using the timeline feature in Adobe Photoshop. Lastly, I moved to Adobe After Effects to compile, make adjustments, and finalize the design.
- Design Challenge
- The most challenging part of this project is in the detail of the aesthetics. My goal is to create a natural, organic fluid movement as much as possible, and in order to create that, I decided to do it with cell animation which takes much more time. The second obstacle is to animate and design all the small elements in a frame to be uniform in the same time.
- Project Duration
- The project started in September 2017 in New York and finished in February 2018 in New York, and was exhibited in a screening at SVA Theatre located at 333 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011.
- Operation Flow
- This project is a short movie. End user will be able to enjoy this animation without having to interact with anything.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration for this project is the beauty of "timing" when taking photographs. This story was based on my past experience working as a photographer where I would wait for several hours for the perfect natural lighting. I believe that a perfect picture wouldn't exist without a perfect moment. "A second would make a big difference!"