Khel Tale: An Interactive Animated Storybook App for Children
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According to the current study, children adores reading fairy tales or comics since their childhood. In today’s world, digital grounds have transformed storybooks into animated illustrations. In particular, famous studios like Disney are producing movies out of them to attract and influence millions of children. However, moral based stories have always been in demand to teach children that how to pay heed to the elder’s advice. Also, how to morally transform their behavior in a positive manner. Khel Tale is a modern version of animated storybook application for children to play which asks them to pick one of the main characters of their own choice, out of the story. Thus, children enjoy the consequences of making those choices at the end of the story. It is a choice based animated storybook that plays 3D animation clips in order to narrate the whole story to children through pictorial illustrations. The main purpose of this mobile application is to teach children regarding the importance of obeying the instructions of their elders through decision-based 3D animated stories. The application runs in landscape mode and is divided into further episodes. The content of each episode covers a small lesson for children. An episode begins by playing a fixed 3D animation video clip, and later on it offers two choices to children in order to particularly conclude the episode either with a good choice or a bad choice. Later, children can also see the consequences of their choices and actions in the story. The basic concept of this application revolves around a thought that mostly children are fascinated by the characters they observe in cartoons and read in stories. Hence, they start relating them to those characters. This concept is evolved by combining the approach of teaching to children through 3D animated stories where they can choose the characters to see the reaction of not listening to their elders. They also observe that what reward they can get if they actually act patient and listen to what elders advised them. Hence, the current study regarding Khel Tale application concludes it with the effectiveness.
Index Terms: Animated storybook, audio dubbing, computer animations, Khel Tale, teaching good behavior, 3D and 2D visual models
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