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Space Bunny Goes Shopping was the story of an extraterrestrial rabbit and her friends. In this project kids created a comic book of the story with themselves as actors. Each child then got a copy of the book at the end of the day.

The project was realized by using a live video feed and various premade virtual props that were superimposed onto the video. The kids also made some props that were scanned in and also introduced over the video. One person controlled the video and brought on the virtual props as required. The software was designed so that the props could also have different types of autonomous movement such as floating around, accelerating, bouncing around the screen, etc.

The project ran as follows:

1. The kids sat in a circle and heard the story of Space Bunny. The live video feed was running and the virtual props were shown at appropriate moments.

2. They were asked what other things they might see in the story. They they set about drawing these things (planets, stars, aliens, etc.).

3. These new graphics were scanned and imported into the software during the lunch break.

4. Roles were then allocated and the story was acted out using real and virtual props. Key scenes were captured to become pages in the comic book.

5. These captured images were made into the Space Bunny comic book which was given to all the kids.