The purpose of this project
The intension of creating this project is to bring more realistic contact to the children with the characters from books. As I was young, I always wanted to communicate with the characters in the book I loved, and not feel satisfied just finish reading and forget about it, but wished more, which could be sequel but more than that. Due to, nowadays, books not only alive in papers but films, games and etc. and I have seen some mobile games with 2D animations mostly and some 3D's. Therefore, I wanted to create an Augmented Reality reading experience, so that, children can access the story in another way.
My Audience
The focus group would mainly be Children from their age 6 to 8. As this age's kids starts seeking stories which is much magical and exciting, and something related to themselves.
The Worse Witch
The Worst Witch is a series of children's books written and illustrated by Jill Murphy. The series are based on primarily boarding school with fantasy stories happened around the core character Mildred Hubble. All the series have published, and which have become some of the most outstandingly successful titles on the Young Puffin paperback list and have sold more than 4 million copies. It has been made into TV series which aired between 1998 and 2001. And a new series will air on CBBC in early 2017.
Why is Augmented Reality
Making it Augmented is not only seeking for the closeness with the character but also play with more possibilities with the characters. With Augmented Reality you can either read the stories in an interactive way from home or school whenever the books open or play with your characters anywhere you want with the special cards hold. It is immersive and fun! If you play from a phone or iPad, it will be much easier to access from anywhere you want, and with the cards or the books. No matter you learning or playing from Xbox, TV or computer with a web camera, or through a projector, it gives you the possibilities to truly feel for the feeling which the characters from the book may felt.
But build the Augmented reality story in apps is aimed at saving the time for accessing the game but playing and learning more.
Making the 3D character
Building and designing the app
The Software I use
The Final Product
Evaluation of this project