Project #5 AI Companion

Prata G. is a little dog friend that paints for you! As he paints you can decide to save his work or have him start over, though it will make him upset. If you choose to save his masterpiece, you can hit the SAVE button to save it to your computer!

Design Process

Concept

For this sketch, I wanted to think about the role of being a parent and the specific situation when a parent chooses to hang the child's art on the fridge. I instead used a dog as the character, because it gives more of a whimsical and childlike feel. When working on this I found that it is complicated to save an screenshot to a server or sketch folder to then be displpayed on the canvas. Because of this the sketch is missing some functionality. In iterating on this project I had to abandon a lot of the facial expression assets due to an issue with transparent images layering. I would like to fix this issue and add more interactivity and personality in the future.