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Flex 3 - Kids Coloring Program
at DataNotion (Anywhere)
This bid is for a Flex based web application where children can color a picture onto a canvas. Each change made to the drawing is stored into an array, so that it can be played back at different speeds.
Summary
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Child is presented with a blank canvas. The background looks like coloring book paper. On the side are standard drawing tools, such as large selectable squares of color choices, an eraser tool, line thickness, and start over. The drawing pointer will look like a crayon that is of the color that the child choose. The line that is drawn must look like a crayon marking, so that when you draw one color over the other, you can still see little bits of the bottom color show through. Maybe a slight transparency would work here as well - I'm open to suggestions.
Other Requirements
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- Must have a kid-friendly skin - colorful, cartoon like, big glassy buttons, animated heavily. A "frog" theme is preferred.
- Must be able to be easy to use for a kids using a mouse - ages 4 to 10
- Skin must be able to be created in a way so that it can be modified globally
- Background canvas should look like the paper of a coloring book - drawn lines should be slightly transparent so that you can see the paper behind them - it just needs to look real.
- Must have a button that the child can click to "play back" their drawing. In other words, clicking the button will erase the canvas and start redrawing the picture just like the child did. Must have a button to redraw fast or slow.
- Must have an UNDO button, that just removes the last action the child took. Must be able to undo clear to the beginning.
- Erase tool must erase to transparent, not white (so that you can see the paper background)
- Must have a button to take a bitmap snapshot of their picture and show it in another window to print/save/whatever
- Must be written in Flex 3 or 4, so that it can be integrated into our existing application
- Playback should not show the cursor - just the drawing being done
Nice-To-Haves - not required:
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- Degrapha used for UI is a plus
- Simple things to make it enjoyable for the child, like a non-obtrusive animated frog that sits up in the corner out of the way, and looks around or wiggles now and then.
- Non obtrusive sound effects - like a small click when they choose a color, or a very soft scratch sound when drawing.
- The Flex framework we use is called Mate. Those who bid to use Mate will be given a higher chance of winning the bid. Once again, NOT required.
- The ability to save the drawing instructions back to the server (which is a ColdFusion server) and load/replay them on demand.
EXAMPLES:
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There are several "grown up" drawing sites out there, and here are 2 examples:
http://sketchfu.com/drawing/152825-wicked-summer-storm
http://www.ratemydrawings.com/drawings/funny/308760.html
But these are too hard for little kids, and not my target audience.
This is a tool that might help as well: http://www.flash-creations.com/notes/sample_svgtoflash.php
IMPORTANT
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Not everyone is a graphic artist - so if you only want to bid on everything but the graphics and styling, that is fine - just let me know what part you are bidding on. In that case I would create a separate bid for a graphic artist to modify.
This is NOT a rush project and can be done in your spare time. Bid it as such. We also have several other projects that we will need done down the road.
All bidders should be able to provide some past sample work. However if you plan on bidding in the higher $ amount of this project, be prepared to show me some impressive demos.
Please email us your bid and sample work. If you have questions or need details please email.
Thanks for reading this far, and good luck.
Summary
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Child is presented with a blank canvas. The background looks like coloring book paper. On the side are standard drawing tools, such as large selectable squares of color choices, an eraser tool, line thickness, and start over. The drawing pointer will look like a crayon that is of the color that the child choose. The line that is drawn must look like a crayon marking, so that when you draw one color over the other, you can still see little bits of the bottom color show through. Maybe a slight transparency would work here as well - I'm open to suggestions.
Other Requirements
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- Must have a kid-friendly skin - colorful, cartoon like, big glassy buttons, animated heavily. A "frog" theme is preferred.
- Must be able to be easy to use for a kids using a mouse - ages 4 to 10
- Skin must be able to be created in a way so that it can be modified globally
- Background canvas should look like the paper of a coloring book - drawn lines should be slightly transparent so that you can see the paper behind them - it just needs to look real.
- Must have a button that the child can click to "play back" their drawing. In other words, clicking the button will erase the canvas and start redrawing the picture just like the child did. Must have a button to redraw fast or slow.
- Must have an UNDO button, that just removes the last action the child took. Must be able to undo clear to the beginning.
- Erase tool must erase to transparent, not white (so that you can see the paper background)
- Must have a button to take a bitmap snapshot of their picture and show it in another window to print/save/whatever
- Must be written in Flex 3 or 4, so that it can be integrated into our existing application
- Playback should not show the cursor - just the drawing being done
Nice-To-Haves - not required:
----------------------------------
- Degrapha used for UI is a plus
- Simple things to make it enjoyable for the child, like a non-obtrusive animated frog that sits up in the corner out of the way, and looks around or wiggles now and then.
- Non obtrusive sound effects - like a small click when they choose a color, or a very soft scratch sound when drawing.
- The Flex framework we use is called Mate. Those who bid to use Mate will be given a higher chance of winning the bid. Once again, NOT required.
- The ability to save the drawing instructions back to the server (which is a ColdFusion server) and load/replay them on demand.
EXAMPLES:
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There are several "grown up" drawing sites out there, and here are 2 examples:
http://sketchfu.com/drawing/152825-wicked-summer-storm
http://www.ratemydrawings.com/drawings/funny/308760.html
But these are too hard for little kids, and not my target audience.
This is a tool that might help as well: http://www.flash-creations.com/notes/sample_svgtoflash.php
IMPORTANT
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Not everyone is a graphic artist - so if you only want to bid on everything but the graphics and styling, that is fine - just let me know what part you are bidding on. In that case I would create a separate bid for a graphic artist to modify.
This is NOT a rush project and can be done in your spare time. Bid it as such. We also have several other projects that we will need done down the road.
All bidders should be able to provide some past sample work. However if you plan on bidding in the higher $ amount of this project, be prepared to show me some impressive demos.
Please email us your bid and sample work. If you have questions or need details please email.
Thanks for reading this far, and good luck.
Published at 08-08-2008
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