I illustrated the scenes and added in video in metaio, Lai Yenn compiled everything and added text, and Komal animated the choices for the scene.

While illustrating the scenes, I find it hard to keep the consistency of the characters especially when they are in different poses. That's why we drew the sketches then only I scanned it in. I feel much easier to illustrate digitally that way. I also keep notes to myself to keep all the stroke size the same and the camera position of the characters, for example, if fox stands on the left, he will always be on the left.

I've also planned that for every scene, they will be moving to the right. I think it might be easier for readers to follow as words are also read from left to right. So, it makes them feel like they are moving to somewhere. Whereas, if I draw them to move to the left, it feels like they are going back to somewhere.

As for the fonts, initially we've thought of using helvetica, but I think for a children's book, the font might give off a too serious mode. So, I suggested we should change to a fancier font, but not too fancy to the point it hard to read.

I've illustrated a complete background then only I zoomed into certain spots when I place the characters with the background. Lai Yenn helped me out in placing some of the backgrounds.












And here is the video for fox's choice :




And Dog's choice :











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