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Megan Fletcher

Megan Fletcher

Traveling for free

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Traveling the world for free this week

This week, I’ve worked a lot on the stinger animations in After Effects and finding street-level images in various cities throughout Africa for Dr. Gordon’s AFR 303 class.

 

Maddy had the great idea of using Google Street View, combined with basic tourist sites, to find the city skyscraper-type pictures that Dr. Gordon wanted. It was pretty successful, although I spent a lot of time hopping around Accra, Ghana for a good shot. Once I took screenshots, I did some color correction, cropped to the correct aspect ratio, and erased Google’s street names with the clone stamp tool when necessary. Here are some of the edited versions.

 

 

This past week

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This past week

This week had me feeling like this old TinTin comic at times, but I got through it!

 

Here’s what I’ve been working on this week:

project: AFR 303 Animation & Green Screen Photo Selection
Client /Prof: Dr. Edmund Gordon
completion status: Started Sept. 1 2021
staff guidance: Maddy Kaniewski
STA team members: Sheryl Long
description/plans:
For animation:
Take 20-40 images from professor’s lecture presentations, find a free, bold sans serif font, and make an After Effects animation masking the images into bold “Black Studies” text.

For green screen photo selection:
Find images to replace current ones in lecture presentation: images of certain African cities on a street level view, so that the professor looks like he’s standing on the street.

To be completed: September 6th 2021

 

 

I’ve also done some photo IDs and a button for NTR 306!

This week: ending the hiatus

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This week: ending the hiatus

I’m back from taking the summer off! It’s great to be back on campus. Here’s what I did this week, although things have been a little slow:
  • Updated my old animation intro for Dr. Callmann’s organic chemistry class
  • Got a shiny new @austin.utexas.edu email address
  • Edited photo IDs
  • Made a reformatted PPT title slide for AFR 303

Can’t wait for the semester to kick up!

 

 

Humanities Banner

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Humanities Banner

I got a small assignment last week to create a new web banner for the Humanities Institute and upload it to Cascade. I made a few drafts in Illustrator with the institute’s new logo.

The drafts are either solid or textured or blue or gray. The texture is the ball-and-line element from the logo faded almost all the way into the background to add depth and dress up the banner a bit. The color version of the logo’s dom color is blue (hence the blue option) and the grayscale version was provided to give some options.

Finished GOV banners and more

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Finished GOV banners and more!

I finished up the government retractable banner project this past week, so be on the lookout for graduation banners in front of Batts Hall soon! I also presented my work on the Texas Politics Project’s social media graphics suite to (all of) LAITS on Monday. I’ll be signing off for the summer here in a few weeks, so dear reader, I will miss you!

 

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