AGF releases "Latte Motion," a short animation featuring 1,000 cups of handmade latte art!　A Couple's Love Story

Ajinomoto General Foods Co. (AGF) has released "Latte Motion," a short animation using 1,000 lattes.

This is an animation work created by the company's "Latte Motion" project, which aims to produce the world's first animation (stop-motion movie) created by stencil latte art. In response to the attention paid to Japanese latte art techniques, such as a Japanese winning a world latte art competition and many latte art imitating popular characters uploaded on the Internet, the company challenged the world's first attempt to create an animation by creating illustrations one by one on the surface of a latte using stencils and connecting them together. The director of the film is Hakuhodo Products Inc. The director was Ai Ishiguro of Hakuhodo Products, music was by Eiko Ishibashi, and the illustrator was Shinya Inamura.

The latte art was created by food coordinators using more than 300 stencils (mold boards used for drafting) and sprinkling cocoa powder on the surface of the latte. The approximately 1,000 lattes were photographed one by one over a period of three days in the studio, and then connected together like a flip-book manga to create a 90-second animation. The film depicts a couple's long life together, from childhood, youth, marriage, childbirth, child-rearing, to old age, and is full of warmth that only handmade lattes can express, which cannot be done with computer graphics.

A making-of featurette is included at the end of the video.