KITE: Courage Building & Interactive Storytelling

Project Overview

KITE is an interactive preparation platform and storytelling concept designed to help children process big emotions and face real-world fears by practicing scary events digitally. This project was a capstone brief set by Bimbo Oni Studio under the industry theme of Cognitive Play & Emotional Learning. The brief asked for a six-scene illustration system and supporting spot illustrations that communicate both the whimsical, organic fantasy elements of a child's imagination and the emotional acting of moving from isolation and apprehension to real-world bravery. The deliverable was not a UI design project. It was a visual storytelling project, one that needed to make a viewer feel the problem before they understood the solution.