"Reader Rabbit"

Everything always began with sketches. The sketches of Reader Rabbit and his friend Sam

below are actually refined sketches ready to be colored.

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The pictures below show turnaround poses, a jump animation,

and fidgets (these are Reader thinking).

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The animations below show Sam making his usual “ZIP” entrance and “ZIPOFF” exit.

For one of the last series of products, we tried to reduce the enormous amount

of art generated by reusing as much as possible. Below is an example (launcher)

The launcher screen (above) was used for five different products

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You might notice that games for children in that era liked tree houses.

The theme was extended in these products to all of the activities. Examples below:

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We “branched” out in other Reader Rabbit products. Reader Rabbit's Math Ages 6-9

was an educational program aimed to provide children ages 6 to 9 with several activities

in order to improve their mathematical skills. Reader Rabbit, Sam the Lion

and Penelope the Parrot need the children's help to explore Pi-Rat Island.

As always, we start with the black and white drawings. Most importantly,

this establishes where we want to locate certain activities.

When the sketch is approved, it is sent to the colorist,

an artist that will make make it beautiful!

Below are a few of the backgrounds for Reader Rabbit's Math Ages 6-9

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This was one of the last games we produced in the 1990’s. In the 2000’s we produced

some of the best Reader Rabbit art, but I unfortunately deleted all of my files

to make room for new works. It’s actually an accident that I still have the art

that is on this site. Last month I finally threw out all of my CD’s, disks, etc.

since they will not run on newer computers, tablets, or phones.

Then I ran across these old files that were on my backup hard drive,

and got the idea of uploading them to my website and the rest is history!