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Week of 9/24

September 27, 2018 By Melissa Lam

Week of 9/24

This past week I’ve worked on two animations for Russian.

The first one, featuring the Adventurer climbing a hill, had more work involved than the other animation. For the climbing animation, I had to create a “climb cycle” of sorts for the character. I wanted to make him look like he was absolutely dying, and then the camera zooms out and it turns out he’s on this tiny hill that’s not even that high. I also had to animate the cute rabbits (drawn by Duo) hopping around, silently judging this fellow.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/reaching-top-of-mountain-V2.mp4

Next, I did this edit of a baby crawling on the floor. All I did was add a drop shadow to the baby and animate the Glasses Boy sleeping. (Also Tate told me the Glasses Boy and Awake Girl had a baby???)

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4.2a-crawling-a-baby-crawls-on-floor-v2.mp4

project: Updating Anthropology Virtual Labs
completion status: Started September 2018
staff guidance: Estella Sun
STA team members: Bridget, Valerie, Emily, Chloe, Duo
description/plans: Transfer all the text and images from the old Flash website to a new site that can be accessed by future students.
To be completed: ASAP

I also started updating the Anthro V Labs. The lab I was assigned is super long and has a ton of videos that I can’t embed, so it’s a bit frustrating.

Here’s an example of what the new site looks like compared to the old site:

 

 

 

And here’s what it looks like behind the scenes:

Finally I worked on some PSAs for video title cards telling everyone to vote!

project: Voting PSA cards
completion status: Started Sept. 19
staff guidance: Tate Gibson, Suloni Robertson, Mike Heidenreich
STA team members:
description/plans: Design video cards to tell online students to vote!
To be completed: Sept. 24ish

Vote y’all!!!!!

Filed Under: 2018 Fall - 2019 Spring

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