CASE STUDY

SWATCH X BAPE

Turnaround time

6 days

Project acquisition

Collaboration with Photographer

Client: SWATCH X BAPE

(Excerpt taken from Wikipedia) Swatch is a Swiss watchmaker founded in 1983 by Nicolas Hayek and a subsidiary of The Swatch Group. The Swatch product line was developed as a response to the "quartz crisis" of the 1970s and 1980s, in which Asian-made digital watches were competing against traditional European-made mechanical watches.

A Bathing Ape (or BAPE) is a Japanese clothing brand founded by Nigo(Tomoaki Nagao) in Ura-Harajuku in 1993. The brand specialises in men's, women's and children's lifestyle and street wear, running 19 stores in Japan, including Bape Stores, Bape Pirate Stores, Bape Kids Stores, Bapexclusive Aoyama, and Bapexclusive Kyoto.

Project brief:

To produce twelve digital animations in collaboration with photographer Eva Al Desundo around the launch of the Swatch x Bape collaboration, which had a different edition watch which was then released in different cities.

moodboard

My involvement:

I had been in charge of producing the all of the digital animations for the collaboration, taking the photos Eva had shot, cutting the images and using the provided product shots to then create a series of twelve digital animations.

Process

1) Receive brief 2) create moodboard and video moodboard 3) get concept signed off from client and receive branded digital assets 4) receive photos from Eva and select favourites 5) source stock imagery elements 6) outsource the cropping/ cutting of photos and stock imagery 7) integrate images into After effects composition 8) integrate movement to the photos and elements 9) repeat, asses and complete each piece of artwork 10) send to client for approval 11) receive feedback, make minor adjustments and re-deliver 12) project signed off.

tECHNIQUES USED

- Photography
- Film Directing
- Movement direction
- Videography
- “Living Photo” technique
- Motion graphics
- Image manipulaton
- Colour grading
- Video edit

RESULT

The client was very pleased with the creativity shown within these animations and how they all came together. The feedback was mainly preference such as changing of certain fonts and poses etc. The visual assets were promoted across all of Kitsunè’s social media channels, crediting me in each post. 

tECHNIQUES USED

- Motion Graphics/ Animation
- Art Direction
- Visual Direction

work file
moodboard

RESULT

Swatch and Bape had a huge global launch/ activation for the collaborative watches for each city. These animations were used as promotion across social media, for around two weeks prior to the launch.

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