Kappa Jizo Tshebetso ea Buka ea Litšoantšo by Kaori Hamura Long

Kappa Jizo Tshebetso ea Buka ea Litšoantšo by Kaori Hamura Long is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Theknoloji ya Mehala, Diaplikeishene le Softwere Competition Category.

TšepeMohala· 2021

Kappa Jizo Tshebetso ea Buka ea Litšoantšo

by Kaori Hamura Long

Client: Moss Moon Studio

Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award Winner in Mohala Category

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The Design

About Kappa Jizo Tshebetso ea Buka ea Litšoantšo

Kappa Jizo ke sesebelisoa se kopanetsoeng sa buka ea litšoantšo bakeng sa lisebelisoa tse tsamaisehang. Pale ena e khothaletsa bana ho ba le boikutlo bo bulehileng ho batho ba tsoang meetlong e fapaneng. Puo ea molumo e fumaneha ka Senyesemane le ka Sejapane. Bana ba ka tobetsa, ba hulela le ho ngoahanya baphetoa le lintho ha pale e ntse e bapatsoa, hape ho na le leqephe la mebala le kenyeletsitsoeng. Mesele eohle e ne e tatsoa ka letsoho ka pentsele holim'a pampiri, eaba e phunyeletsoa 'me e mebala ka mokhoa oa dijithale. Mantsoe le 'mino a ne a rekotoa bakeng sa sesebelisoa sena. Morero oa ona ke ho ruta tlhompho le ho fokotsa khethollo.

The Recognition

About the Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award

Kappa Jizo Tshebetso ea Buka ea Litšoantšo ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang e fuoang meralo e metle e finyellang litlhoko tsa porofeshenale le tsa indasteri tse lebelletsoeng ho lintho tse hlahisitsoeng tse entsoeng hantle. Bahapi ba Tšepe ba bontša bokhoni bo boholo, bokhethehi bo phahameng, kutloisiso ea litsebi le bokhoni ba boqapi ba baqapi ba bona. Kappa Jizo Tshebetso ea Buka ea Litšoantšo e lebelletsoe ho ba ntho e hlahisitsoeng e hlomphuoang haholo, e ratoang le e ratehang, e sebetsang le e nang le mehopolo e mecha. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award o kenyelletsa mekhoa e metle ka ho fetesisa ea indasteri mme o na le litšobotsi tsa theknoloji tse nang le bokhoni tse amanang le tsebo le talenta. Ka lebaka la botlalo ba eona, Kappa Jizo Tshebetso ea Buka ea Litšoantšo e tšoanelehela tlhompho mme e entsoe ho fana ka ntlafatso ea bophelo e thusang ho etsa hore lefatše le be sebaka se molemo.

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.
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