Adventures in Atomville: The Macroscope

[acousticlady]

Re: Adventures in Atomville: The Macroscope

Yay! All the links work! If you go to atomville.com and click on HERE, it will take you to the publisher's page. There you can see the cover and get more info.

The link at Barnes & Noble seems to have disappeared though . Easy come, easy go? Who knows?

We are looking into incorporating the web development of this into a local community college course(s). This is not a done deal yet (so I can't give any details), but definitely looks promising.

[Peshkwe]

Re: Adventures in Atomville: The Macroscope

You're welcome

There are also pros there who may be able to point you to someone.

There is also:

http://www.daz3d.com

http://market.renderosity.com/index.php

and

http://www.runtimedna.com/

there are a lot of hobbyists and freelancers at those sites who may work with you too. Can't hurt to check em out.

[acousticlady]

Re: Adventures in Atomville: The Macroscope

Poke around CGSociety:

http://www.cgsociety.org/

http://forums.cgsociety.org/


That site has a lot of people coming out of school with skills but no actual working experience. You might be able to find someone to work for a cut of the royalties or scheduled payments or some other agreement.

Excellent! Thank you.

[Peshkwe]

Re: Adventures in Atomville: The Macroscope

Poke around CGSociety:

http://www.cgsociety.org/

http://forums.cgsociety.org/


That site has a lot of people coming out of school with skills but no actual working experience. You might be able to find someone to work for a cut of the royalties or scheduled payments or some other agreement.

[acousticlady]

Re: Adventures in Atomville: The Macroscope

Thanks guys! It's been a long time in the works. And still much work to do. I was really amazed to see it on the B & N site. I'm still not sure how it even got there. Maybe they just put up new books?

This is sort of self-publishing. The woman I am working with (I created and wrote it - we collaborated on the story) was really the force behind this.

It is illustrated - I will see if I can put up a few of the characters. You can see the main characters and the town on the web page. Development of the web page may be slower- no money . We're looking into interns, which looks promising.

[tutusue]

Re: Adventures in Atomville: The Macroscope

#2 mo`opuna is our little science guy. I'm pre-ordering the book for him!

[pzarquon]

Re: Adventures in Atomville: The Macroscope

Very, very cool. So glad to see this coming to fruition! Hope the B&N link soon shows more of what's inside... for folks with kids who love science (like mine), $9 sounds like a great deal!

[matapule]

Re: Adventures in Atomville: The Macroscope

Very inventive and imaginative. I like the concept of of the "macroscope." You know, sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees? I think this idea has a real chance of working. Just remember to presevere when you hit those inevitable bumps in the road.

Good fortune!

[Peshkwe]

Re: Adventures in Atomville: The Macroscope

Sweet!!

My 12 year old loves science.

Got any stills of the 3D characters you can show?

[acousticlady]

Some of you may remember me talking about a little project I have been working on (for years now) about 2 atoms named Niles and Livvie and the view of the world through their eyes. Ultimately, we hope it will be a book series, interactive web site and animated series and/or movie. When I talked about it before, it was merely a pipe dream. Slowly but surely, we are making progress. This is for 3rd - 6th grade reading level. And, this is purely fiction - not meant to be a textbook or anything.

Anyway, the first book of the series will be in print on June 1. Barnes & Noble is taking pre-orders on line. Here is a link:

http://books.barnesandnoble.com/sear...omville&pos=-1

and a link to the atomville website - it's only a splash page at the moment though:

http://www.atomville.com/