365 FLOWERS

Title365 FLOWERS
BrandKIRIN COMPANY, LIMITED
Product / ServiceTANREI GREEN LABEL
CategoryG05. Motion Graphics Design & Animation
EntrantDENTSU INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Idea Creation DENTSU INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Idea Creation 2 PARTY Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Company Position
Noriaki Onoe DENTSU INC. Creative Director/Copywriter
Kentaro Sagara Freelance Creative Director/Art Director
Daisuke Nakamura PARTY inc. Creative Director/Technical Director
Naoto Tanaka BUONO Producer
Keisuke Komatsu, Nami Annen BUONO Production Manager
HORSTON Freelance Director/Animator
Keisuke Tominaga, Taro Umebayashi PIANO Music Producer, Music Composer
Tomonori Hayashibe STUBBIE Music Arranger
Paul Cox Freelance Artist/Illustrator
Shuma Hirose CALF Animation Producer
Hiroshi Yamamoto Garage Film Animation Producer
Chikako Iwasaki, Jun Takizawa, Miki Tanaka, Itsumo Togashi, Ryoya Kaga, Ippei Kurahashi, Yuanyuan Hu, Kana Miyazawa, Ryo Okawara, Akifumi Nonaka, Shin Hashimoto, Moeka Yamazaki, Masanori Okamoto, Yusu Freelance Animator
Eri Okazaki, Yuta Kuniyasu CALF Animator
Yoko Yuki Graphinica Animator
Noriko Yamamoto Garage Film Animator
Paul Nicholson, Kunio Sawai MontBlanc Pictures Animator
Yui Umemoto, Takuma Yamahira Freelance Animation Production Manager
Ami Uyama, Chie Miura Garage Film Animation Production Assistant, Digital Colorist
Seiya Kodama, Azusa Yoshida, Sayaka Ida TOKION Assistant Colorist
Naoki Oishi Big! Motion Graphics Designer
Natsuko Kida, Etsuko Taguchi Bureau Kida SARL Artist Coordinator
Hiroka Hasegawa Freelance Web Art Director/Web Designer
Yui Yoshida, Takeshiro Umetsu mount inc. Web Designer, Web Technical Director
Tadashi Koiwahara, Shunsuke Ishii HUSMA™ Developer
Eri Hosaka Freelance UI Illustrator
Tei Jyo, Teresa Kurome mount inc. Design Assistant
Chihiro Serizawa mount inc. Project Manager
Satoshi Shinjin, Takanori Kubo, Hiroki Jirai catchball Inc. PR Planner/Executer
Kaori Suzuki DENTSU INC. Sales
Kana Kawamoto DENTSU TEC INC. Sales

The Campaign

The idea of "365 FLOWERS" is 365 flower animations for every day of the year. Birth flowers are 366 (counting leap year) flowers that celebrate each day of the year. We created the ultimate birth flower online dictionary "365 FLOWERS." Users are greeted with pleasant music and animated birth flower characters. The accompanying scenery depicts the four seasons in Japan. Users may tap a flower to see its origin and meaning, share animations on social media and download them.

Creative Execution

To express the brand image of Green Label, we paid extra attention to feel-good textures and mood when creating the website. The character design and animations were all done by hand to create a warm impression on-screen. The biggest technical challenge with the main focus of this project --- the 366 birth flowers --- was to show their charm as a collective drama troupe, and simultaneously show individual flowers in a visually pleasing way. We invested half a year working with 40 animators to meticulously determine the frame rate and number of frames, colors of each animated character, and overall design of the website. Creative Process of Each Birth Flower: 1. Illustration (1 day) 2. Animation (3~5 days) 3. Rendering series of images (1 day) 4. Optimization of website data and programming (1 day)

Indication of how successful the outcome was in the market

Many people were able to experience the brand's image of "feel-good green" that includes nature and plants. The website also provided each user an opportunity to think about his/her own birthday and its meanings. The website received over 270,000 accesses, and 90% of the visitors were the target audience of females. The animations were downloaded over 140,000 times. Shares on social media exceeded 27,000. In addition to activities on the website, on multiple social media, many users exchanged the animations in celebration of one another's birthdays.

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