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WEB SITE CREATION - 2004-2005
JOAN WALSH ANGLUND - WEBSITE
Joan Walsh Anglund is the author and illustrator of more than 120 books that have sold over 50 million copies around the world in 17 languages. For more than 50 years Joan has been writing and illustrating wonderful children's and inspirational books and has produced Dolls, Collector Plates Figurines, Clothing, Greeting cards, Tea Sets, Glassware and a host of other products to numerous to mention here. The Anglund family and my family have been good friends for many years. Joan is old school, no internet, no cell phone, no newspapers...she is the most amazing woman and a gift to the world. I had this idea of trying to bring Joan into the computer age by making a website and trying to expose her amazing drawings and books and products to a whole new generation. So I built this website for her and made partnerships with paper companies, book companies and clothing companies to manufacture products built by the user using her artwork.
I also designed and programmed and manufactured several Game & Book CD's out of Joan's work. The First one was from her famous book "A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You. I scanned all the images from the original book and then painstakingly frame animated each page using her original illustrations. Then I had Joan Read the book and I used her voice over on the cd so Joan would be reading her book to your child.
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The Second One I did was The Joan Walsh Anglund Coloring Book CD. Using Joan's original coloring books I wrote a paint program and then added about fifty coloring pages that the child could color on the PC and Print or just Print the uncolored page and color that.
The Third one was The ABC Book CD. Once again I scanned the original and than cut out and frame animated each letter of the alphabet that she had drawn and I used the song that Bob Lamb and I had written the ABC Song as background music.
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The fourth one was just an Idea I had from a character she had created named Adam. She had drawn a picture of him sleeping and I came up with an idea to make a simple counting game where Adam is sleeping and dreaming of Sheep and you needed to count how many come to visit him. I grabbed still pictures from other books and animated it all and coded it into a Baby's First Software Series.
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The fifth and last one was A Friend Paper Doll CD. Animated all the frames but also cut out all the individual pieces from the book so the child could drag and drop clothing on an animated Joan Anglund Doll onscreen. Then After you had dressed the doll it would go and do what it was dressed for. So the Cowgirl would ride a pony and the Ballet Girl would do a dance etc.
I also made a deal with an embroidery company in NJ that did beautiful one off clothing and embroidery. I scanned hundreds of Joan's Images and created on online program on the website that allowed the user to select and place an image on all sorts of garments for children. Not only could they Place an image on a shirt but they could use the Alphabet Letters as the first letter in their name to personalize them as well. I also made a deal with a paper company to print stationary, calendars and Greeting cards all using the same personalization program with Joans images.
Unfortunately the money was not there to continue the endeavor so all the sales on the website are disconnected but the site remains up so everyone can see her work. No one has kept up the site or the technology so many things do not work properly. And at the beginning of this year 2021, we lost another legend in our lives as Joan Walsh Anglund passed away. She will be missed by many but her work and her family will live on. Love you Joan Always!
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