The proposed project aims to find a way to make more interesting and stimulating the creation of characters for children's books for children . In the initial project children simply drew the characters that were applied to the history and book. The intention was to bring children into the design process . For it would be important and a process of creating complex characters that children could participate in the process as a whole, not just developing the characters , but can participate in layout , binding and choice of materials , to the view that that material was produced by her ( in partnership with a designer ) at all stages could distinguish a value and so she could identify more deeply with the material . According to Dan Arielly from Duke University and his research : "people Involved in the process of creation had a substancial bias When Evaluating Their own work ." The idea of co - design would be applied in the sense that some designers could work together and guide a group of children . For a job that was efficient , being able to actually reach a satisfactory end product involving children and to awaken the spirit of working together and fellowship is the proposal that a single final product was developed by the group. In this case there would be every child developing your group of characters , but all the children together developing not only the characters , but the other stages of completing the book.
All begin with a discussion whose purpose is to define the characteristics of each character . The designer would raise questions about the physical and behavioral development of each character urging children to loose their creativity . Issues such as the age of the character, it would be an animal , a human being , a child , black or white , and be happy , sad , playful . What is your favorite color and he loves popsicles ? Children would be involved , as well as hone their creativity , ability to expose their opinions , argue and reach a consensus together . Thereafter initial setting can be made individually or in subsets , while at the end of this step the features which will be developed and compared with the final profile of each character. For this step in the process of co - design process was studied layered elaboration . According to studies of Allison Druin et al , University of Maryland , this process has benefits as the ability to modify the storyboard without causing permanent damage to the originals , the ability to overlay transparent layers of different groups to compare aspects in common and uncommon work of each ; portability of this method as a tool for co - design , since its area is about the size of a clipboard and requires only a few brushes , to be a process enabling quick interaction designers to reach quick conclusions and order by possessing a cost of materials relatively cheap compared to other methods of co - design sessions . At this stage each participant or subgroup receive the kit comprising a clipboard , the base would be the body of the characters (only the shape of the trunk , head and limbs ) , some transparency sheets and permanent markers in various colors . Based on the previous discussions , the children begin to complete the design with aspects they deemed necessary , drawing on transparency that would be attached to the clipboard on the base sheet . Every child could draw more than one model and decide between one of them at the end of this stage and each character would have a sheet different basis. At the end of the stage , all the participants to meet and assisted and coordinated by the designers , would compare the drawings and through the layered elaboration might notice similarities and differences between the drawings and discuss what is more interesting and go selecting the main features to develop the visual end of the character. The end result would be scanned to be printed on white paper , where children could color and finishing the characters that would apply to the book .
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