The Storybook Lab is a project offered by Srishti that works towards writing and illustrating engaging interactive and educational storybooks for children. Along with my two partners Anuja Shukla and Priya Gandhi, we re-interpreted an old Indian folktale and translated it into a multi-dimensional interactive story that can be accessed on a tablet. The aim was to make the app non-linear, while also making it bilingual.
Disclaimer: All images previewed below are from final iterations, and not the finished work.
Trial promotional video for the app
We have attempted to create a well-rounded prototype of an interactive storybook app that will create a curiosity in children to play with the elements in the technology, keeping in mind the affordances of an eBook. We hoped to incorporate a quest element in the story that will engage the child as an active participant with a sense of something unfolding in a journey, while maximizing the exciting applicable aspects of the medium. We have aimed to keep the flavour of the folktale as we developed the story.
Home page
Character Design
Final character sketches
Stills from the app:
