Solar Play House

I worked on a group project this week and we were to create a short children's story to go along with one of the products. The product is a kid's play house that is solar power generated. When working with the group, I worked mainly on the ideation stage, story line, front and back cover, and arranging the book for printing. We handled the project like we were creating a comic book, where one person does the line work or inking, one person does the coloring and one person does the cover illustration. One of my co-workers;Cole created the line work and passed it on to another co-worker;Susie who handled the coloring and then those images were passed onto me so I could arrange them and apply typography in Indesign. Also while they were working on the pages of the short story, I was doing the line work and coloring for the cover and back cover. I had to work very closely to create the linework in the same style as Cole did thorough out the book. I also had to keep checking Susie's updated pages and make sure that we were keeping the same color palette.

On the first day of the project(monday) we came up with the story line and created quick sketches of what the character and scenes would look like. The next day, the ideas were approved and we were able to start working on the linework. There was a pretty tight deadline for this to be finished by the end of the week because the booklet/shortstory was going to be placed in the products box along side the instruction manuel. The product was going to be shipped out to Australia and Europe as soon as we had finished the booklet.

I really enjoyed this project a lot. The projects that I have worked on so far, were things that I have done solo, and working in a group seemed like it was a lot easier to brainstorm and get started quickly. Also, it was alot more illustration based, it was so nice not to have to measure a product and create a package with exact measurements to fit. We knew right away that the size of the booklet was going to be half letter size and I was able to arrange it very easily, it just seemed less technical.

I wanted to color the pages inside of the booklet, but we thought it would be best it I did the front and back cover, so that the inside pages stayed cohesive. I am going to color them on my own time though, since i have the linework. I would like to add it into my portfolio once I am finished with it.
Is it ohk to add a group project into my portfolio though? I know that industrial designers do it all the time and they just point out the parts that they worked on. I was thinking I could do the same and just mention that I created the color for the pages and also the linework and color for the front and back of the booklet.