Statement of intent

Statement of Intent

“Larry the hairy friendly bear” is a children’s story about a bear who lives in the woods and is greatly misunderstood. Due to his size and loud growls (his only way of manifesting excitement), everyone is afraid of him.

 The project, based on this story, is a children’s interactive digital book, aimed at 4-6 year olds. 

Each page, will be a 3D scene, set on a theatre stage, with each character and environment element, being created as a cardboard cut-out.

3D Studio Max is the software chosen for modelling and creating the UVW maps for the environment pieces as well as the characters,  while Adobe Photoshop CS6, will be used for creating the textures. 

The narrative skills accumulated over the past 2 years of college, will be used to create a fun, age appropriate, character driven story.

The collaboration with a programmer, will add great value to the project, as, by implementing it into a game engine such as Unity 3D, the book will benefit from a quick deployment onto any mobile platform, hence, opening the market to a wider audience.

For the audio side of the project, a voice-over narrator will be outsourced.

As a final presentation, I am looking at creating a "Larry toy" and maybe a 3D printed keychain, as well as a printed version of the book.