Innovation and Collaboration : Prototype & Children Book Examples

During the weekends, we've decided to do a prototype for the first scene, which is the garbage monster scene. We've divided the work between the three of us.

Voon Ann is doing the background of the setting, Cam is finishing up her garbage monster animation, and I'm in charge of the marker and page layout. I was also supposed to compile everything up in Metaio but for some reasons, I couldn't upload a video onto my Metaio. Even after changing the file format, I still couldn't do it. Maybe because I'm using Window 8, because when I passed the files to Voon Ann, her laptop worked.

Nevertheless, this is one of the page that I've done for the first scene.

And here's the animation that Cam has done.

We showed it to Mr.Mike, and he said we should change several things;

The reading format for the dialogues might be difficult for children of 4-6 to understand. He showed us examples from Dibo the Gift Dragon, Winnie the Pooh, Pocoyo, which they normally only have one text in every scene. And usually it comes with a narrator.
The outlines of the characters should be outstanding compared to the background. He suggested us to use a slightly darker colour of the character as the outline, instead of using black. And the background should be dimmed down to bring out the characters.
The garbage monster should look more like a 'Blob', distorting the forms of the rubbish on his body, making them as a texture and not popping out of the body of the 'Blob'.
Put the texts as lower 3rd, so that it is easier for the children to read.
Look for more examples of preschooler storybooks and see how they normally place their text.

Coincidentally, we were at Pyramid after class, so we went to Popular to check out some books that we can refer to.