I’m working with Laura Huang. The idea behind our project is to show some scenes of a day in the life of an ordinary person, and allow the user to interact with the scenes by zooming in to take a closer look at the devices this person is using, such as her phone. We decided that the overall scenes will be photographs, and the main character (and the people she interacts with) are represented by cartoon-style drawings. We’re also considering adding one last part to our story, as currently the story lacks a satisfying ending.
So far, we’ve drawn all the characters (excluding any additional scene(s) we might add for the ending) and selected all the background photos. The characters were drawn by Laura in Adobe Illustrator CC and exported as PNG files with transparent backgrounds; the backgrounds were taken from the Internet. For each page, both the character and the background photo were set as background-images for the body; the character was added first, so that it would display on top of the background. We also added a dummy button to each scene, which we’ll replace later with more sophisticated user interactivity.
We haven’t added the characters and dialogue to most of the scenes yet. Here’s a couple of the scenes so far, one of which contains our main character:
