✿˖° ⋆ Winter Break 2025 ⋆˚✿˖°
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Went back home and celebrated the holidays with family and friends! Highlights included visiting the Dallas Botanical Gardens, getting my first caricature, and working on my portfolio (hopefully I finish very soon 🍀) !!
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I didn’t travel much, but I did spend a lot of time with family and catching up with my Houston friends! I also spent a lot of time in cafes with said friends locking in on portfolio work. This break was needed very much and I got the rest and start I needed for my personal work!
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— Summer Marketing Pre-Roll Animation Continued—
This month was spent focusing on the pre-production for the summer marketing pre-roll! I spent a lot of taking making edits to existing assets as we received feedback as well as creating a new scene with the UT Tower.
UT Tower
The UT Tower background was pretty straightforward! While it looks complex, I was able to utilize and make adjustments to an existing tower asset created for the last pre-roll.
Boss Character
The edits to the Boss Character were rather simple! I was asked to make him look a bit older to sell the role to the view better.
Kitchen
For the kitchen scene, I was asked to make the space feel more like a home.
Hello! Over the break, my family visited my brother in Kyoto, Japan, and we spent a few weeks traveling to nearby cities. I had an amazing time exploring the local foods and desserts, wandering around gardens, temples, thrifting, admiring the unique sewer covers, collecting stamps, and using the wonderful public bathrooms. I will definitely miss the convenience of the konbinis on every street, where you can find pretty much whatever your heart desires (I personally go for the banana milk smoothie).
My favorite location I travelled to is a little island called Naoshima, which is a small, mountainous location known for the public art scattered all over (and the island is in the shape of a cat!). I journaled some of my trip in my sketchbook, so here are some of my spreads:
Although I had a great trip, it’s nice to be back in Austin. I’m excited to see what this semester has in store for me, and am looking forward to getting back into STA projects. My goals this semester are to continue working on illustrative and UI/UX projects, and to grow communication skills with clients and fellow STAs.
Client: Jonathan Cortez
Task: Create a website/branding to introduce The Carranza Chicano Archive.
Status: In progress, design proposal sent
Clean, Iconography of the Chicana/o movement inspired
Create a repeatable abstract motif/banner graphic for the site. Indigenous iconography (Aztec & Mayan).
Several options of implementations of the above assets.
This break was mainly a chance for me to rest after the craziness that was last semester. That said, during the first week, I worked for LAITS a little bit and also worked on my portfolio :’). For fun, I caught up with old friends from high school, went on a cruise to the Caribbean with my family, and watched a ton of Star Wars!
