Interactive Writing for Children: success stories

‘A Distant Journey’ is an interactive story app that puts a lot of focus on the act of reading, sparking not only a lot of enjoyment for children and parents but also a philosophical conversation after the screen is turned off. By combining the digital world with the traditional world of hand drawn illustrations and acoustic music, the creators tried to make a story that feels as warm as paper on a device of glass. 

Websiteshttp://www.gwenst.com/

Overall, Anne Vasko will focus on how the creative process was different from traditional book projects, whereas Askel Koie will focus on how digital can benefit from working with real artists, who has something at heart, and how the whole team here was working hard to recreate the feel and look of Mrs- Vasko’s work. Askel Koie will also touch upon how to do so, as a kind of ‘tips and tricks’ part of our speech.

Alfonso Ochoa develops apps and writes for kids, Valeria Gallo is an illustrator as they live together they also use to work together. They really wanted to take advantage of that proximity to work on this project. "Retrato Hablado" tries to break the borderlines between the creator, the author and the illustrator : just a few meters separate Valeria´s and Alfonso´s workspaces. They also wanted to reinvent the relationship between an author and an illustrator, which is sometimes unfair. Is it possible for the illustrator to "rewrite" a story? To which extent ? "Retrato Hablado" gives the illustrator (and the reader, who becomes an illustrator, in some way) the chance to reinterpret Alfonso´s texts.

Websiteswww.ochogallos.com

La Pastèque publishing presents "Tout Garni", a digital project that has been broadcasted as an advent calendar  throughout 2017. From January to December a new episode of Arthur the pizza boy has been released every months. Based on a story by André Marois, author of the famous "Le voleur de sandwichs", this charachter has been animated by twelve differents illustrators. Arthur adventures are full of twists and excentricity which give illustrators a great liberty to explore differents digital supports (interactive games, comics, virtual reality ...). Tout Garni is an interactive project for the whole family, produced by Studio Dpt and Vali Fugulin with the support of SODEC.

Websiteshttp://www.andremarois.com/

Bringing an illustration to the screen is always a difficult endeavor. When creating touch apps we were many times faced with a lot of challenges. Developing an interactive 3D VR experience the challenges increase exponentially. I will now share some insights on how we tried to stay true to the original design of Chris Haughton and show some of the challenges, small tricks and cheats we used to transform an illustrated book to a place in VR that lives and breathes the original spirit of the illustration.