Adobe Flash and Action script would be the best technical
solution to my proposal. With my current technical skills
however, this solution would be beyond me. My compromise is
to include elements of Flash interactivity into the
project.
I was particularly pleased by the final outcome of the ‘Bob
and Bobita’ project, where the animation is ‘scrubbed’ and
the story scrolls in response to the movement of the mouse.
I am also very excited by the new ‘bones’ capabilities of
Flash CS4, with the possibility of combining this with the
dragging and dropping puppets onto a stage, choosing
backgrounds and props, and then capturing the resulting
image as an illustration to paste back into ‘The
Storyteller’s Apprentice’.
If this could be made to work, it could also be used for
creating on line animation. Both are currently beyond the
scope of my technical skills and the time that I have. They
would be proposals in themselves.
I was inspired by online Flash based drawing applications
and other games of this sort such as ‘
Mr Picasso Head’. Interestingly, I
was in contact with the programmer of ‘Mr Picasso
Head’, who is currently contemplating the possibility
of an animated version.
The page turning device is an experiment in online
presentation, for either the teaching resource that I
create, or for digital story books that are the end result
of the work created by students.
Zoetrope experiment is another possibility for moving and
interactive illustrations, again either as a part of the
students project work, or as elements to illustrate the
teaching resources that I put on line.
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