Children Story Book
This final project is a group work that is designed to train us to understand the process and importance of creating design document, using type and content organization properly, and developing skills in defining visual treatment specifications.
1. The Group
Our “Grandma’s Blanket” storybook is done by these wonderful group mates:
• Ann Soon
• Kan
• Mun
• Melissa
• Val
2. Storyboarding
We gathered and shared our own stories before we adopted Ann Soon’s story for our story book. His story was then refined to fit the requirements of the story book, that are:
• At least 10 pages/scenes.
• At most contains 900 words.
• Tailored for 6-9 years old kids.
Summary of the final story:
Kan is full of mischief and does not like the blanket that his grandma made for him. Worse, he cuts the blanket to pieces and runs away, making Grandma Mel very sad and worried. After a cold and sleepless night however, Kan realises that he was in the wrong. He runs back to his house once it is dawn and hugs Grandma Mel immediately when he sees her. In fact, she had mended the torn blanket with colourful patches while Kan was away. From that day onwards, Kan treasures the blanket and uses it every night when he goes to sleep.
3. Sketching
Here’s our first sketch after we discussed and decided our story:
4. Draw, Color, Document.
With complete thumbnail sketch of every scene, everyone has the same idea of the story in mind and proceed with character drawing (Mun), background drawing (Mel and Val), coloring (Ann Soon and Chris), and documentation (Kan).
I did various samples of color scheme for the blanket to bring out certain mood/feeling:
And also the wall surface of bedroom and living room of Kan (the main character) and Chris (Kan’s friend) in the story book:
5. Finale
After weeks of sleepless nights, the story book is finally printed and submitted :D
Ann Soon and I did coloring of scenes as well as characters and objects in each scene. The overall process was long and tedious, but at the end of it, I feel I’ve learnt so much from this activity.
Here’s the thumbnails of final scenes:
