Kappa Jizo Function Muamua: Polokalame Tusi Ata by Kaori Hamura Long is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Uʻamea in Mamanu Fe'avea'i Competition Category.
UʻameaFe'avea'i· 2021
Kappa Jizo Function Muamua: Polokalame Tusi Ata
Client: Moss Moon Studio
A' Design Award Uʻamea Winner in Fe'avea'i Category
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About Kappa Jizo Function Muamua: Polokalame Tusi Ata
Tusitusiga o le Tusi: O Kappa Jizo o se polokalame tusi ata fefaʻasoaaʻi mo masini feaveaʻi. O le tala e faʻamalosia ai tamaiti ia lototele i tagata mai talaaga eseese. O leo faʻamatalaga o loʻo maua i le gagana Peretania ma le gagana Iapani. E mafai e tamaiti ona tapatapa, toso ma miki ata ma mea faʻatino a o faʻataʻitaʻi le tala, ma o loʻo aofia ai foi se itulau valivali. O ata uma na tusia lima i le penitala i luga o pepa, ona sikaneina lea ma valiina faʻatekonolosi. Sa puʻeina leo ma musika mo le polokalame. O le faʻamoemoe ia aʻoaʻoina le faʻaaloalo ma faʻaitiitia le faʻailoga tagata.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Uʻamea
O le A' Design Award Uʻamea na manumalo ai Kappa Jizo Function Muamua: Polokalame Tusi Ata, o se faamaoniga mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu lelei e faataunuu ai manaʻoga faapolofesa ma pisinisi e faamoemoeina mai galuega ua mamanuina lelei. O ē manumalo i le Uʻamea e faaalia ai le tomai tele, le faapitoa maualuga, le malamalama o tagata poto ma le mafai fatufatuaʻi o ē na faia. E faamoemoeina Kappa Jizo Function Muamua: Polokalame Tusi Ata e avea ma mea ua matuā vivii, mataʻina ma pelepelea e aogā ma fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Uʻamea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili o le pisinisi ma e iai uiga faatekonolosi mafai ua fesoʻotaʻi ma le poto ma le taleni. Ona o lona faatuatuaina, e tatau ai Kappa Jizo Function Muamua: Polokalame Tusi Ata ona faaaloalogia ma ua mamanuina e tuuina mai ai faaleleiga o le olaga e fesoasoani e faia ai e le lalolagi se nofoaga e sili atu ona lelei.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This hand-drawn interactive picture book app will get children thinking about the importance of being open-minded towards people who are different from them. Kids can listen along with audio recorded in English or Japanese and they can also have fun with interactive characters and the coloring page. They can tap, drag, and pinch the characters and objects while the story plays. The children will find that they can be friends with people even though they come from different backgrounds.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 2048 x 2732 pixel (214.9mm x 280.6mm)
- Tags
- picture book app, children’s book app, book app, children’s book, picture book, iTune, Google Play, Japanese book, kid’s book app, app, jizo, app jizo, kaori hamura, kaori hamura long, moss moon, mission, moss moon studio, tolerance, prejudice,
- Production Technology
- First, the storyboard and dummy book was made and then created illustrated pages with pencils and paper. Then the illustrations were scanned and colored in Photoshop. There, all the layers were separated, heads, eyes, arms, etc. for animation. The sprite sheets were created using the extension software called Kwik in Photoshop. We recorded voices and music in Garage Band, and the sound files were imported into Kwik programming. All the pages were published into Solar 2D programming software to build for Xcode (App Store) and Android Studio (Google Play).
- Design Challenge
- The creative part came quickly and naturally for the artist, but the challenge was to create programming without knowledge. Even as an artist and writer with no programming background, she made her first interactive picture book app using the Photoshop extension called Kwik. With easy to use interface within Photoshop, she was able to program her book the way she wanted. However, submitting the app to App Store and Google Play was a totally different challenge, and she has to keep updating the app according to the technological changes.
- Research
- Once the artist decided to take on a challenge to make her picturebook into an interactive picturebook app, she had done an extensive research to create it without too much knowledge of programming. There were few software and extension choices to create an app without extensive knowledge of programming, so she has tried out a few. She decided to use the Photoshop extension program called Kwik, and their tech support was beneficial, so she decided to use the software.
- Inspiration
- Living in a time of the divided world, with bias and hate crimes rising, the artist felt that she had to do something to teach the next generation that it doesn't have to be that way. By changing our mindset, we could change the world to be more united, respectful for people with different backgrounds, and show love for each other. She wrote the story and made a picturebook and decided to turn it into an interactive picturebook app.
- Project Duration
- The manuscript and dummy book was created in October 2007 in Vermont, U.S.A. The app development started in 2015 and was released in June 2017 in Fukuoka, Japan. The updated version was released in October 2020.
- Operation Flow
- It is an interactive children's book app for Apple and Android devices. The reader can listen along with audio recorded in English or Japanese. Children can also have fun with interactive characters and the coloring page. They can tap, drag, and pinch the characters and objects while the story plays.
- Patents
- © Kaori Hamura Long
- Team Members
- Creator/ Illustrator/ Voices/ Music: Kaori Hamura Long
Voices: Bill Long
Voices: Mika Long - Image Credits
- Image1-5: Illustrator/Writer/Music: Kaori Hamura Long,
Voices: Kaori Hamura Long, Bill Long, and Mika Long
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