Josh the Whale | Character Concept

Thor Media LLC is swinging into full production on their first interactive children’s book app, “Josh the Whale”.  Bryce has picked the engine we will be using, Shiva, and is loving it so far.  And I am jumping into some character and level design, along with adapting the original story to fit the interactive medium.

Our original client fell through, but, because we were interested in doing an interactive book app, we decided to do our own instead.

The story that we chose is actually something my brother Aaron wrote when he was in the third grade.  It is a simple story about a whale learning his worth in the world.  We are obviously changing the original version.  Polishing it up, and adding some things to give it more depth.  But the original story will stay intact, and should fit children from 5 to 8 years old.

The interactive book thing is interesting for a few reasons.  One reason is that an interactive book really isn’t much different from a simple game.  Our story will have several different game types involved, that will help children with reasoning, and exploration skills.
The other exciting thing about this project is, it will help us adjust to the new engine, and give us the experience to tackle a larger project.  Like our up coming game.

I will keep posting about this project in the future, and hopefully some more videos.  I am thinking about recording some of my work in Blender, to add to the portfolio, and show how we go about modeling, texturing, and animating our assets.