Oooops!

It was brought to my attention that I had never actually put up most of the interactive books/projects that I looked at originally.. trying to re-find some of them to out them up here!

 

This is a great TED talk showing an interactive book, it has a really nice interface and impressive interactive quality, especially the blowing into the microphone thing.

Simplistic, as it is for children (like most interactive books are). But really nice, and most aspects failry easily achievable.

A brilliant app, that we were shown in uni. It speaks for itsellf.

A bit of an odd one.. but nice animation, done in a fairly simple way with cut outs etc. But I like thie style.

Simple page turning styles, a bit basic but shows where interactive books have come from.

Another fairly achievable style with simple touch screen  buttons and simple animation.

A bit different from what I am going for as it is pop up but still really nice. I like the clean-cut visual style.


Basically, I want to take my book (The Stornoway Way) and turn it inot an impressive interactive piece, but simple at the same time - achievable. I am particularly interested in adding in the interactive qualities but keeping the theme of the book; it must not become childish, I therefore want to stay away from most of the aforementioned examples!

Researching water movement.

Not that great, the guy is annoying. But at least it shows some water movement.. I suppose.

This shows water pouring into water, not what I'm after but again, it shows the movement. It is also useful as it shows the water pouring from a small spout, similar to what I will need.

Really useful, having the water dyed red (not only made me want some cranberry juice, but also) made it very clear.

Haha, very cheesy, but actually very useful when they get to the pouring into the mold part.

Computer generated videos tend to show what I want a bit clearer than most of the real ones on YouTube..

Really useful video, shows the liquid pouring really clearly :)

Update

So, I have began the 'mkaing interactive' process, compile deveryhting in Flash, now just to get things moving by linking it all together e.g buttons working, roatating bottles etc.
The main feature I am going to work on, having discussed this with Lyall; is the whisky pour, hopefully if I can do this really well it will make the whole project look and feel really good.
I begin with researching water movement. I aim to film some water/liquid pouring out of a bottle and over a surface this week, or at least to do tests of this.

SEMESTER TWO

Storyboard

Interface

Decided to use a fountain pen to draw the symbols, then scan them in. The final product was a black and white version of the whisky spill map with symbols on, with a texture overlay.