Group tutorials: practical artefact presentation

This morning during our group tutorials we showed what we've been up to in regards to cop practical. So far I have put together a few mood boards and couple of sketches, I have decided that I want to do The Little Prince because it is a great piece of literature and as for the purpose of my test that the practical animation is for I need some content that would engage children on a more difficult level so I could see how they comprehend the story when it is read out to them in comparison to animated story. Also I need to keep in mind that it ideally it would engage adults as well because as i have established earlier parents engagement into the viewing of animation could make it more effective for children. So is as for the character design, based on what I have learned from Piaget's theory of children's cognitive development research is that I need to keep it simple and symbolic, because children are less engaged to content that they can't understand.

And here are some ideas for character design I have so far:

I was asked whether I would do the animation testing on one group of children and or a few. I did reach out to a pre school back in Lithuania however due to logistics it will be too difficult to arrange so I am currently looking around for pre schools willing to help around me. Also I have a very limited time frame so I would need to finish this animation within a month so I would have time to test it and include it in the dissertation.