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Lila Mali

Lila Mali

Final Post

July 11, 2025 By Lila Mali

Not a goodbye but a see you soon!

This will be my last blog post as a design STA. However, I won’t be completely gone as I’ve taken on the full time position in the design lab at LAITS! I’m super excited to continue working here, meeting new STAs, and getting to know the rest of the staff. I would like to thank the design managers De’sha and Valerie for taking me on as an STA and taking the time to help me and understand my goals. I’ve grown significantly as a designer and animator here and I can’t wait to see what else is next. I’d also like to thank all the STAs i’ve worked with as everyone has been super kind and insanely talented. I’ve learned so much from everyone.

Now to go onto what i’ve been doing lately.

Roster Poster updates!

This has been such a fun project to work on. We’ve made a lot of updates to the poster.

Here was the first update.

The first change was just an overall addition of detail. The docks have bricks, the houses have lines and more windows, and there’s an additonal building to fill up space. We decided to adjust the layout a bit and adding a fun detail to have the title incorporated into the smoke.

With this, we realized that the portaits maybe a bit too small and so they needed a size adjustment.

This meant adjusting the buildings to be bigger.

My face for reference. This is what we’re working with so far. There will be further adjustments in the future but for now, I really like how it’s coming along

Filed Under: Fall 2024 - Spring 2025, We are STAs

Roster Poster Progress

July 3, 2025 By Lila Mali

Roster Poster Updates

(This post was made earlier in the month but due to an error with publishing it shows up before my later progress.)

The roster posters have undergone many changes following the winter olympics and Americana art themes. Here’s some more mockups I made for those themes.

After meeting with my supervisor, De’sha, we thought of broadening the theme of Americana art to eras in American art that will span for 4 posters! We will keep Americana art as one of the posters. Here’s a layout sketch I made for it and I’m pretty excited to work further on it.

Filed Under: Fall 2024 - Spring 2025, We are STAs

More roster poster progress

July 3, 2025 By Lila Mali

More Roster Poster Progress

After speaking with De’sha on the direction of the roster posters, we decided on the theme being American art history! I’m excite for this theme, it opens a lot of directions for creative freedom.

To start, we want to do a pass of an Americana art roster poster and see the different iterations of that. Here’s what I was able to mock up.

I’m really liking the direction of these posters and they’ve been a lot of fun to work on. I’m excited to see where they will go.

Filed Under: Fall 2024 - Spring 2025, We are STAs

June 9 – 13

June 17, 2025 By Lila Mali

New stingers!

We are at the end goal for the GOV310L stingers and this time, I had to mkae 2 that could have their titles edited for differing topics. Here’s how they came out!

I had a ton of fun with these and I even got to make a template for the video team to switch the bottom text title out. Hopefully the template I made is easy to adapt to. Overall, these stingers have been super fun to work on!

Roster Poster updates

We have new themes to work on! I was suggested to think of the themes Winter Olympics 2026 and Americana Art. I decided to get started on the olympics theme first. The first peice of advice I was given is that since we have 3 different types of posters to make, I should consider how to separate the theme into different aspects for example not just the sports but also the ceremony, the winter, the athletes, etc.

Here’s what I’ve mocked up so far.

Filed Under: Fall 2024 - Spring 2025, Uncategorized, We are STAs

June 2 – 6

June 6, 2025 By Lila Mali

STA Roster Poster Mockups

I’ve been experimenting with roster poster designs for the different ideas I had. Here’s what I’ve been working on!

These are the designs I made based on a music concept!

As I’m typing, I realize I could play around with classical music concepts such as orchestra, music notes and sheet music, or classic jazz. Maybe I can look into that later.

Here are the mockups based on a comic concept.

I was really excited to make these and I love how the top one is looking.

And lastly here’s a mockup based on a video game concept.

I really liked how this one came out and it was a lot of fun to work on. I’ll continue making more mockups as more ideas come to mind!

New GOV310L Stinger

I was requested for a stinger called “Unpacking the News”, here’s how it turned out!

Filed Under: Fall 2024 - Spring 2025, We are STAs

May Updates

May 30, 2025 By Lila Mali

To end off the month of May, this will be a quick update on the projects I’ve been working on!

GOV310L

I’ve been making more stingers! Here’s how they’re coming along.

I wish I was able to find a work around for the text on the “On the Ground” stinger but there maybe change to it in the future, if I have time I’ll see if I can make an alternate edit to it.

Roster Poster ideas

For the Fall 2025 STAs, I was assigned to help brainstorm some ideas for potential roster poster themes. Here’s what I thought of.

Roster Themes:

  • Music
    • Making posters from famous albums covers and STAs are displayed on CD covers or vinyls
  • Library
    • Posters from famous book covers, STA’s displayed on book covers
  • Space
    • Planets and solar system, STAs displayed on stars or meteors
  • Ocean
    • Coral reefs, ocean animals, STAs displayed on bubbles or shells
  • Video Games
    • STA’s on classic game cartridges and poster can be made after game covers
  • Painting
    • Roster poster is a painting palette, there’s different paints and art supplies around
    • Graffiti style alternatively? 

Filed Under: Fall 2024 - Spring 2025, We are STAs

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