Gooodafternoon! For some time I have worked with a friend on this wonderful Interactive Storybook-application for kids: 'The Little Cow Finds a Friend!' As a writer it was a challenge to write the ultimate story for children, a story that would inspire, encourage and lift up the young ones (and also those of older ages). It became a story without the presence of evil, yet, with many challenges to overcome. Eventually friendship and trust give way to the greatest adventure imaginable (something of a theme in my own life of course). But what is a children 's adventure without visual art? My dear friend from Iran, Shidsa, made the most wonderful and inspired embodiment of the Little Cow and all the characters in the book. She created something of which I can say: this IS the Little Cow. There is no other Little Cow possible that is as much the Little Cow as this Little Cow for sure! After a long process of creating the basic concept, we thought about the best way to bring the story to children. This lead to the idea to create an interactive storybook, an adventure with sounds, movement, animation, interaction, secrets! Lots of secrets. This book has 'DISCOVER!' written all over itself. As it was difficult to find animators with the ability to execute the vision, I decided ,after consideration, to learn this trade and do the project myself. I found powerful software called 'Kwik' which works as a photoshop plugin, and in some months learned the way of variables, timers, linear and other kinds of animations. I encountered countless runtime errors and other nightmares that one is not aware of before one ventures of into the unknown. But with the superior help from the kwik-software owner, errors were eradicated and we reached for the finish line. Having had great response from professionals and an animation-professor, we can confidently and proudly say: we present to you this day a great application! Available on android only for now (sorry apple users). Worthy to be seen in your home, on your phone and on tablet. But.. that is not the end of the story. The final 'art we must conquer to finish the journey is that of 'marketing'. For that purpose we created a very cool youtube video (a series in the making). Help us, watch it, share it, and let us know what you think!
'The Little Cow Finds a Friend!' Is available for android as an interactive storybook-game on Amazon and the Google Play Store. (Link found in youtube video)