Nekoshiro

Nekoshiro is the character who will serve as the class instructor in our application. The name is a combination of "neko" (which means "cat") and "shiro" (which means "white"). So basically Nekoshiro means "white cat". However, because we think less people know that neko = cat, so we just have to call him "Nekoshiro cat" (even though literally, it would become "white cat cat"!)

We will create Nekoshiro with little animation, only some facial expression changes and tail waving, since we don't want to too much distraction.

Nekoshiro will have different outfits through the class.

In our application, we have the following sections:

Introduction
Lessons (7 in total)
Basic conversation
Quiz
Credits

We will one outfit for Introduction and Credits, one for Lessons (but with different color and pattern for each lesson), one for basic conversation and one for quiz. So generally, he has 4 different outfits.

Nekoshiro design is still under construction.

Flowchart Content

Flowchart content for our project. It looks pretty linear and simple. However, since everything is practically connected to each others, it is indeed much more complicated to link every pages.

Note: There are actually 7 lessons but because they all have the same structure, I just use one for all.

My Hiragana Chart

This is the Hiragana characters I've done in Illustrator. Above are 46 ones that will be animated. There would be more, because there's more than one way to write a character but we just plan on animate the basic 46 characters. The alternative ones will be shown, but they won't be animated.

After doing these, I had to break down the stroke to make it easier to animate, then import everything to Macromedia Flash and get them prepared for Phong to animate.