I am so relieved and overjoyed that the printing process is done. Nothing beats the feeling of seeing the virtual book turned into a real book. But I went through a bit of frustrating moments before printing. Illustrator does not seems to export the bleed with the artboard even though I ticked export with bleed. I have yet to find out what I did wrong. I tried many times exporting but it just doesn't seems to work. At the end, I changed the document's sizes :
This is the original A4 size :
Then I added plus 6 mm (the bleed) to the width and height.
And exported the files into PDF and then combined all the scenes into one PDF.
This time, when I got to the printing shop there was nothing wrong with my files except for the file size. The file size was too big that their printer wouldn't print the file. Fortunately, the staff helped me reduced the file size. Note to self, I must try to minimize the file size as much as possible for future printing projects. Moving on, I choosed 100gsm matt paper to be used for the pages inside the book, and a thicker paper for the cover with matt finishing.
Our client also did suggest to us to use matt paper instead of glossy, so it will be easier to scan without the reflections getting in the way. And we agree to that suggestion.
And here are the photos of the printed book :
Finally we have completed this AR book project, and it was an enjoyable experience for me. Throughout this project's process, I've learned to think more critically when coming up with ideas and solving problems I faced. It was really exciting to be able to use the AR technology in our project and I am excited when the video plays after I scanned the QR code. Other than that, I learned more about working together as a team and how we can work better together by knowing each other's strengths and weakness so that we can accommodate to each other's skills. I felt like we have given new "life" to books and I hope I get the chance to do a project like this again.
AR is a new technology and I believe it will soon become a daily usage in the future. I can't wait for that moment to come and I hope I will be part of projects which involve AR sometime in the future.
