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Week 13

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Week 13

STA Presentation Poster

Client /Prof: LAITS
Started: January 17th, 2023
Staff/STA guidance: Maddy & Leilani

 

Tuesday – started helping out Leilani with the STA Presentation Poster by compiling some color palette inspo. I was trying to follow the colors within our references of vintage sports aesthetic and a 2000s Juno vibe. There are a lot of muted tones, as well as pops of color. There is also a nice range of warm AND cool tones.

Wednesday – I started experimenting with the colors and text on the poster. I learned some neat ways to select certain elements in Procreate (after much frustration and going about it the hard way:,)

 

Color palette inspo:

         

Scrap paper colors:

 

 

STA Poster Drafts

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Spring 2023 STA Poster

Research and Sketches

Project: Spring 2023 STA Poster
Client /Prof: Internal
Completion Status: Started Jan 12
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Description: Poster featuring all the LAITS STAs.
To be completed: Jan 25, 2023

This week was slow, with not too many projects. I primarily worked on finding new ideas for summer marketing and drafting templates for the STA poster. The theme of this semester’s poster draws from vintage sports trading cards. I looked at the images Maddy had given me for inspiration as well as did my own research on the design of retro ephemera. After spending some time doing this, I made a few sketches on paper and brought a few into Illustrator.

Week LVIII

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Week LVIII

This week, settling back in, was a lot of small stuff. I helped onboard a new STA, gave a tour, and troubleshooted my Box issues in terminal, between tiny course graphics edits and exports for old projects. Coming up for the spring, I have 2 big things.

Save the DATE!

Project: Course Graphics – 2023 STA Presentation
Client /Prof: LAITS
completion status: WIP
staff guidance: Maddy K
STA team members: Leilani, Louisa, et al
description/plans: TBA
To be completed: TBA

So, we have our first official STA presentation since… 2019? The theme is sports, and I’ll be in charge of a lot of prep and graphics, but for starters I’m just drafting a promotional ticket stub. Most of the text isn’t done yet, but I spent a lot of time getting the shape perfect.

Basic Training: Create your own 8-bit Animated GIF

With most of our After Effects human capital departed, I’ve been suggested to start some animation trainings. This one was short and simple, and I’ve done similar stuff before.

Something that did come up was our organization system for STA trainings, and the forgotten training spreadsheet… Valerie, Maddy and I are meeting this week to draft up some better organization systems.

Intermediate Training: Animate Simple Course Graphics

This is where the actual Ae skills come in. I haven’t gotten past the drafting stage, with Save the DATE! taking precedence, but my idea is making an intro for Introduction to Greek Archaeology, one of my favorite electives I’ve taken at UT.

Week 1

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Intro

Hi! My name is Daniela, I’m a sophomore in Electrical and Computer Engineering and this was my first week as an STA! It was nice to meet the current staff and STAs. I spent most of the week being onboarded to the team and learning how to use all the project management tools/software here at LAITS. I am excited to begin working on more projects in the following weeks! Thank you LAITS team for welcoming me.

STA Banner and Avatar

Project: Blog Banner and Avatar

Client/Prof: LAITS STA Blog

Completion status: Started on 1/11

Description/plans: I designed my banner and avatar for the LAITS website

Timeline: 1/11-1/12

To be completed: Completed on 1/12

 

During the latter half of my first week, I completed my STA blog banner and avatar. I designed my banner and adjusted the dimensions on Canva which I had already used before for designing flyers for student orgs. To draw my avatar, I dabbled with Procreate for the first time so that I could export my design as a PNG with a transparent background.

 

avatar

 

Week 12

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PHY 303E Course Animated Intro

Client /Prof: Dr. Viranga Perera
Completion Status: Started on Jan 9
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Complete by: ASAP

First week back from winter break! I helped make the PHY 303E course materials my last work week in December, and now I’m mainly focusing on the animated intro for the class that will show before lecture segments.

So far, here is the most recent draft that I have (using two templated from Motion Array): https://utexas.box.com/s/20d3waer6vi1yzs7dnkmldjslecojdrq

 

2023 STA Presentation Ticket/Ad

Client: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on Jan 13
Staff Guidance: Maddy
STA Team Members: Adrian
Complete by: Feb 3

Today I started working on the little Save the Date ticket for the STA Presentation, which is a presentation that LAITS puts on to showcase STA work. Here I just started testing out text placements and different ways of going about it, and next I’ll experiment more with fonts, colors, and other visual things.

Week 12

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Week 12

CH 320M Organic Chemistry II

Project: Intro animation and iPad overlay for Dr. Iverson’s O Chem II class
Client /Prof: Dr. Iverson
Completion status: Started January 10, 2023
Staff guidance: Julie Phillips & Maddy
Description/plans: Edit the Organic Chemistry intro animation for O Chem II and Dr. Iverson. In addition, create an iPad overlay for O Chem II.
To be completed: January 12, 2023

Intro Animation

The challenge with the intro animation was some of the original editable files weren’t uploaded to the box folder. I had to make do with the parts we had (which were most of them) to create an intro similar to the original mp4. Julie and Maddy were very helpful in answering my questions throughout the project. Most of the process was just reuploading images from the box folder into Adobe After Effects and then editing it down to closely match the original.

 

 

iPad Overlay

The original iPad overlay had the lionfish image cropped and blurred with filled text boxes. Maddy suggested fading back the image (and provided an example) and removing the colored text boxes. I think this made the overlay look more modern without distracting from whatever information will be posted onto it. Fading back the image also made it more ornamental to the overall overlay:)