The story book.
The description of our story book will be in the design document. Here I’m only talking about what we feel while doing this final assignment.
I pretty like the story. It has a small “twist”: monsters are not always that much evil like they are always poitrayed, and the hero doesn’t need to always use violence to save the princess. By “negotiating”, Tom even make Sissy become an dedicating artist, a “useful member of the society”
Sissy turns out to be a really cute character, doesn’t it? Everyone I asked loved it, cute Sissy
Another idea of the story that I liked is the ending. Well, fairy things are often believed to be unrealistic. However, by leaving the ending like that, we would like to encourage children’s imagination, encouraging them to believe in good things. It’s a nice dream, but its images may be found somewhere, here and there in our real life. Isn’t it beautiful?
By doing this assignment, we did learn a lot about using Illustrator
well, got upset with it quite a lot, but the result is not bad. I love the characters.
I also want to add shadow, and shading for every objects to create the depth for the pictures, but it’s too time consuming and we didn’t have time. So I just add shading for important objects and characters in important pictures, use gradient for some other objects, and leave the rest in flat colors
I somehow love the color of this book, colorful and fresh
I think it suits the kids.
For the layout, firstly we just simply do the pictures at the top and put the text at the bottom. But then Mr Reddy said that it’ll be too separate
then we put the text inside the pictures with a box with low opacity
and put some bubble talk , too
I’ll put here some of our pictures:
Old design:

And this is the later one, big improvement, right? Changed the color, edit the character, add some cute things…
