A Christmas book.

I have two young children. Two boys. They are both crazy about Christmas as most kids are (and adults to be fair) , and I have read to them many Christmas themed books over the years. For whatever reason they stick in the memory more than most other books, probably because of the festive theme, and it has been an ambition of mine to make my own.

This leads me on to my next project. Pencil's Christmas. It's about a penguin who wants to see the world and likes to sketch what she sees. She quite randomly ends up at the North Pole on Christmas eve and the adventure begins. How she got to the North Pole is a subject for another time and debate! :)

I'm going to develop the book in Unity and make it an interactive book, but NOT i stress , a game. It's a book that has narration, pictures , text and animation. A sort of pop-up , lift the tab V2.0

I did some tests with sprites created in Adobe Flash and the results were ok although I wanted a super crisp , clean look. This is mainly down to my limited artistic ability but also inspired by some cut out cartoon styles such as Peppa Pig and the like. Sprites were ok but I found that they don't scale well and can look a bit grainy when abused. So , I'm attempting to create the whole thing with Vector graphics and work with SVG files within Unity (with the help of Blender).

So , here's a test shot , and the book will (hopefully) be out before the end of November (or else what's the point , right!??!).