Emerging Technology as Blended Media

sources about the problem of new media
Joseph Gordon-Levitt states the problem with narrative on emerging media (specifically VR) at Sundance. This is really close to my statement of new media as a blend, and he starts to talk about the role of the spectator and narrative effect/function.

From this article by Jason Ferguson

https://uploadvr.com/virtual-reality-storytelling-problem-theater-will-save/

Active Vs. Passive Voice

Word is giving me "passive voice" errors.
To clarify:

Active
Subject, then verb, then object or person
John cleaned the room.

Passive
Object, then verb, then subject
The room was cleaned by john.

http://www.whitesmoke.com/passive-voice-in-english

More rough bits

New Pages

The book will run on a tablet, so I am adapting the design for the smaller screen. Only using the foliage on the drop cap and enlarging that letter makes the details more clear than having a bunch of tiny plants on a smaller screen.

I have a rough version of the first few pages.

Rerendering some stuff

I have had to redesign and rerender some stuff (the foliage text needs to be large to be worth the render time, so I am limiting it to the Drop Cap.
I have used so many different versions I am having trouble figuring out which one was the final and getting the lighting to match. THis is the Book Opening, which I am trying to match with the lighting for the first page (there is a paratext page that says "Tuba-Goose Chapter | One: Probably a Goose"), but I do not have the animation for the Paratext page yet.

T Strokes

I got the T curves and strokes
There is a problem with Maya. When I try to render with an image sequence it says it cannot find the images. It works fine for a single image, but not for a sequence.