Some months ago I introduced you to the illustrated
book Find The Cutes. I interviewed the Author Vincent Noot and he
informed us about his project. To bring you up to speed I will have the first
interview below. Moving forward, Mr. Noot's is still on kickstarted.com with a
pledge of $7,843.00 and so far they are down to $7,098.00 with 24
backers.
Mr. Noot is also talking about making a sequel to
Find The Cutes, here is what he had to say...
Will you make a sequel?
Yes. We are planning on an
entire series of 10 books. We created two new characters for the 3rd and 4th book.
The 2nd book will be called “Find the Cutes - Festival Fun” and will have fun
search pages about Christmas, Easter, and Halloween, but also about the Tomato
Festival in Spain, Songkran in Thailand, and Sinterklaas in the Netherlands. It
will also have 12 pages and a story line. We already started working on
it.
For more information on how you can help fund the Find
The Cutes project please visit kickstarter.com
First Interview
I was recently contacted on my business Facebook
page by Vincent Noot, Mr. Noot sent me a message informing me of a
project he and his wife just completed. Well, how about I let you read the
message for yourself...
Hi there,
I saw your Facebook page. It looks nice. I have a request,
something that could be good for both of us, if it would be the right kind of
content for your page of course. But either way, I would appreciate your
response. For the past year, my wife and I have been putting hundreds of hours
into drawing a children’s book. It is not just an ordinary story, but a search
book. Have you ever heard of “Where is Waldo?” Our book is a similar concept,
but it’s more focused on kids, with pages that are about a birthday party,
petting zoo, swimming pool, playground, etc. The title of the book is, “Find
the Cutes.”
Now that the book is finished and that my wife and I are
investing in printing, we need some help. On March 1st (2014) we will launch a
project on kickstarter.com. You might have heard of it. It's a crowd funding
website. And to get our name out there and achieve our goal, we would love to
put a story on your Facebook page, your blog, or any other places where people
could see it... whichever you would like of course.
So after I read the message, I checked out
there website
findthecutes.com and took a look at there crowd
funded efforts on kickstarter.com . We posted this
interview from Vincent Noot.
Q. What is Find The Cutes?
A. "Find The Cutes is a kids book, of hand-drawn
illustrations, it's sorta like a modern day Where Is Waldo but exclusively for
kids."
Q. How long have you been a Artist?
A. "I have been drawing since I was 4 years old, and I am 32
now, so I've been doing this [drawing] for a while."
Q. What made you want to start Find The Cutes?
A. “I was doing a lot of cartoon assignments for the owner
of a child daycare franchise. It made me realize that this was really my style,
that I should do more with my cartoons. As a kid, I always spend hours looking
into search books, but there were some elements missing. ‘Find the Cutes’
focuses a lot more on children. It contains drawings of kids playing at
birthday parties, school, a swimming pool, etc. I love children, and I love
drawing. What better way to combine them?”
Q. Was there any other motivating factors to help you get Find
The Cutes up and running.
A. "Absolutely!" My wife Celestial she pushed me to
bring the cutes to life she likes to say that (“I help set goals for Vincent,
so he knows when to get the next page done.”) so she is without a doubt
my motivating factors."
