Starting experiment!

After the presentation today, I would consider storybook to have a horizontal slide. Instead of just sliding, it will have an arrow to go to the next page and instead of of a totally different scene, the background (- or any visual) is connected to the next slide. This, is very similar to parallax scrolling except that it uses arrow instead of scrolling.

Examples of horizontal parallax and scrolling :

http://www.reverenddanger.com

http://www.gavincastleton.com/index2.htm

http://www.drugtreatment.com/#next

Since, we should start experimenting already, I started on the character design. I tried drawing the girl in four different ways from different inspirations and this is what I get:

From here, I would pick 2 & 3. Hence my character style would be the body of 2 and the face of 3 since I think it would be cuter that way. Besides, drawing small kids like that would be easier to color. 

For the color, I may consider physical watercolor painting while digital painting as an alternative. Before that, I would have to consider practicing my watercolor as it is not my forte in it. I will take this as a good opportunity and reason to learn this technique.