Kappa Jizo Programu ya Kitabu cha Picha by Kaori Hamura Long is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Teknolojia ya Simu, Programu na Programu Competition Category.
ChumaSimu· 2021
Kappa Jizo Programu ya Kitabu cha Picha
Client: Moss Moon Studio
Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award Winner in Simu Category
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About Kappa Jizo Programu ya Kitabu cha Picha
Kappa Jizo ni programu shirikishi ya kitabu cha picha kwa ajili ya vifaa vya mkononi. Hadithi hii inawahimiza watoto kuwa na mtazamo wa wazi kwa watu wenye asili tofauti. Masimulizi ya sauti yanapatikana kwa Kiingereza na Kijapani. Watoto wanaweza kugusa, kuburuta na kubana wahusika na vitu wakati hadithi inaendelea, na ukurasa wa kupaka rangi pia umejumuishwa. Michoro yote ilichorwa kwa mkono kwa kalamu ya risasi kwenye karatasi, kisha ikapigwa picha na kutiwa rangi kidijitali. Sauti na muziki vilirekodiwa kwa ajili ya programu hii. Lengo ni kufundisha heshima na kupunguza ubaguzi.
The Recognition
About the Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award
Kappa Jizo Programu ya Kitabu cha Picha ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima unaotolewa kwa miundo mizuri inayokidhi mahitaji ya kitaalamu na ya kiviwanda yanayotarajiwa kutoka kwa kazi zilizobuniwa vizuri. Washindi wa Chuma huonyesha ustadi mkubwa, utaalamu wa hali ya juu, uelewa wa kitaalamu na uwezo wa kibunifu wa waumbaji wao. Kappa Jizo Programu ya Kitabu cha Picha inatarajiwa kuwa kazi inayothaminiwa sana, kupendwa na kuenziwa, ambayo ni ya vitendo na bunifu. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award unajumuisha mbinu bora za tasnia na una sifa za kiufundi zenye uwezo zilizounganishwa na ujuzi na kipaji. Kappa Jizo Programu ya Kitabu cha Picha inaheshimiwa kwa uangalifu wake na imebuniwa kutoa maboresho ya ubora wa maisha yanayosaidia kuufanya ulimwengu kuwa mahali bora zaidi.
Behind the Design
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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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