Silver A' Design Award Winner 2022
Mateus Morgan's Vessi Animation Website and Social Media presents a strikingly sophisticated composition wherein a pristine white athletic sneaker occupies the central focal point, suspended in apparent weightlessness against a graduated sage-to-seafoam background that transitions with remarkable subtlety from deeper teal-grey tones in the lower register to luminous pale mint in the upper portions. The compositional architecture employs a radial organization, with approximately eighteen to twenty translucent water droplets of varying scales distributed in an orbital configuration around the central footwear subject, creating a dynamic yet balanced visual rhythm that suggests centrifugal motion frozen in time. The chromatic palette demonstrates sophisticated restraint, anchoring itself in cool neutral territories—the background moves through celadon, sage, and pale aquamarine gradations while the shoe itself presents an achromatic white upper transitioning to a distinctive teal-turquoise textured sole unit that echoes and grounds the environmental color story. The water droplets exhibit extraordinary technical rendering, functioning as spherical lenses that capture and refract environmental light with convincing optical physics—each globule displays caustic highlights, internal refraction patterns, and subtle chromatic dispersion at their curved edges. The lighting paradigm suggests soft, diffused illumination from an elevated frontal-left position, creating gentle modeling shadows beneath the shoe and consistent specular highlights across the water spheres' upper-left quadrants. Spatial construction operates within a shallow pictorial depth, the flattened background gradient providing contextual atmosphere while the three-dimensional droplets establish varying distances through scale diminution and focus gradation—larger foreground droplets display crisp edge definition while smaller background elements soften appropriately. The surface treatment across elements demonstrates material differentiation: the sneaker's knit upper suggests breathable textile tactility, the sole presents geometric honeycomb patterning implying cushioning technology, and the water droplets achieve glass-like transparency with convincing surface tension characteristics. This digital rendering aligns with contemporary commercial animation aesthetics, demonstrating the hyper-real material rendering capabilities that characterize premium product visualization in the current era of motion design excellence.
The designer sought inspiration from the nature element and colors, bringing a fresh and light aspect to the animation. His main concern was always the quick and objective reading of the information and always focused on the sensory. The elements he have chosen always work according to purpose, without being banal. The choice of colors and shapes strengthens the sense of concept, bringing the air of lightness and softness needed. His main concern was always the quick and objective reading of the information and always focused on the sensory.