Jeremy Wade is Dozy Bear LLC  “Aaron’s Rainy Day”

What was the initial inspiration for your app?

My mother wrote the original story for Aaron’s Rainy Day about fifteen years ago when I was very young, and she originally titled it “Rain Dance.” She asked me to illustrate her book about six years ago, but when I started college I never got around to it. When I decided to start an app company after graduating, I decided to go all out with her story and not just illustrate it, but turn it into a multimedia book app.

What is your favorite aspect of your app?

Without a doubt, my favorite aspect of this book is the character animation I incorporated into the story that took the pages from static to dynamic. At first I simply created a single image for each page with just a few moving components, but the best decision I made was to take the time to learn how to rig up characters with fully animated body parts. Even the subtle eye darts and blinks make it feel like there is a real character on the screen and took the book from okay to wow.

Is there anything else you would like to share with our readers?

Don’t forget to check out Aaron’s Rainy Day on Apple TV, where you can read the story portion of the app using the Siri remote or a game controller. For our future apps, I hope that we can reach the point where our products can be as emotionally heartwarming and as visually appealing as a Pixar or Disney film. To achieve this, I want to focus on the quality instead of the quantity of the apps we release, so don’t be surprised if we don’t put out very many apps over the course of the next year or so. I also urge parents to send an email if they feel anything is wrong with our apps so that we can make any changes needed to make them more child friendly.

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