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RUS 412 Developments

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RUS 412 Developments

No super visual updates today! Last week, I mainly worked to get the animation aspect of the RUS412K project back on track. I had previously gotten a little behind on assigning tasks for this project, and after talking with Suloni, Samantha, Kelly, and Heather, have devised a way to make sure we stay on track with the project and deliver everything on time. In doing so, we have agreed on rolling deadlines for the animations, since they all don’t have to be completed by the end of August. That way, STAs can continue working into the semester on these animations, giving them more time to complete them. I also learned that the RUS407 semester doesn’t go live in the fall, just the spring so I have reached an agreement with the professor to push back the deadlines for the RUS407 edits until we can make sure the classes that go live in the fall will be completed in time. Now I’ve got the animation google sheet back in order and STAs are breezing through the assignments I’ve been giving them, just waiting to get audio/ppts for the RUS412 semester to get those synced up with the help of some video and design STAs before classes begin at the end of next month!

Week of 7/23

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Week of 7/23

I finally finished the design for the “This is Democracy” podcast! This is the final design that Dr. Suri chose, compared with the first design I originally submitted:

 

The Lincoln statue was a tedious process to trace, since I was afraid that if I made it more simplistic like the buildings from before it would not be as recognizable, since the statue is of a person. But I think the shading really tied everything together!

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I also did most of the color for my illustration for RUS412, as of the meeting this is what I have:

I’m going to play around a bit more with details, colors, and shading to try to match the style better. Also, I might change the time to 8pm or so and make the sky more like sunset because I don’t think fireflies come out at 4am!

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Lastly, I worked on this animation of a mother + child walk cycle! The kid is supposed to be dragging the mom over to a store to buy a toy or something he wants, which is why he’s pointing and leaning forward more compared to the normal walk cycle. Tate got the walking (legs) part spaced out so that the two don’t step down at the same time, and I adjusted the hands so that they’re connected in every frame.

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Updated RUS412K Google Sheet

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Updated RUS412K Google Sheet

After meeting with Dr. Rice on Friday, I have updated the google sheet containing all the needed animation assets with the next set of animations! There are less animations for this section in general, and many less assets that won’t be reused for this section! Below is an image of the new google sheet:

Zoomed Out Screenshot, much less content than the previous section!
Zoomed in; so you can see some of the things needed for this version

Quick Text Update on RUS412K

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Quick Text Update on RUS412K

Just a text update today! As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been working on a bunch of PPT Video edits for the previous 2 semesters of the RUS online course. Those videos are in their final stages! I’m sending Dr. Rice the last videos for her to approve before she gives me the notes of which videos are being split into two parts. After the videos that need to be split are complete, the RUS406/407 videos should be complete and we can begin on the RUS412 Videos.

I also met with Dr. Rice on Friday to show her all of the wonderful assets that everyone has created for the animations, and she was super pleased with how everything was looking! She loved the backgrounds and variety in characters! Preproduction is almost complete for this first set of animations and I’m excited to get them finalized. I’m meeting with Dr. Rice on Friday to go over the next set of animations!