The Prisoner of Carrot Castle has been released! The book is now available in print. And to celebrate, author Chris Pedersen is heading to A Day on the Farm. (What better place to share a book that encourages children to eat... Read More
You might be thinking by now that the steps to developing an iPad app never end. Well... it sometimes feels like that to us too. Since none of us have ever done an iPad app before, there's been a roller coaster learning curve and unforeseen... Read More
Yikes, we have been busy! Kate has been cranking out the final scenes and animation pieces. Nur has been coding like a mad man. I've been tweeting, facebooking, Google+ing, writing press releases, working to set up the website for Purple Carrot... Read More
Things are going warp speed now. I worked on a detailed schedule for development, illustration and project management/marketing—there is a lot to accomplish to get the app out before the end of fall. The final title page still needs the... Read More
First things first: Did you LIKE Purple Carrot Books Facebook fan page and are you following @prplcarrotbooks on Twitter? Good! Now read on. Step Six: A. Illustrate Each SceneThe work at this point is heavily concentrated on the... Read More
The Prisoner of Carrot Castle © 2011 Plenty has happened since the post From Picture Book to iPad App ~ Step 4. Kate has painted color studies to determine the coloring for scenes and characters. Nur has used the roughs and color... Read More
The storyboard is now well defined, coming alive with sketches and interactive features. In Step Two I laid out each scene and identified interaction, animation and sound in the storyboard. As we got more into the process, seeing scene... Read More
Meet Aiden—exuberant and full of imagination If you're just joining us, you'll want to catch up by reading Step One: Assemble the Team and Step Two: Complete Storyboard. Step Three: Meet the CharactersWhile I worked on the... Read More
I completed the draft of the storyboard for The Prisoner of Carrot Castle and sent it to Nur (developer) for comment. Once we settled on the storyboard, it went on to Kate (illustrator) so she could get started on the scene art and come up... Read More
I am marching forward with my plans to make my picture book, The Prisoner of Carrot Castle, into an iPad app. I researched how to put this all together and thought readers of this blog would find following the project helpful. We are working... Read More