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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.
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— Final STA Pop Art Poster —
After many iterations, we finally reached a final design for the STA Pop Art Roster Poster!!
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— Summer Marketing Pre-Roll Animation —
My first group assignment in a while!! I’m excited to work alongside Kyra and Lila (again!!) on this project. We are to collaborate on creating an animation advertising summer classes offered at UT while emphasizing that this is something you can do without it impeding your summer.
Our first task was to create environments for different scenes. I was assigned work from home and office space environments. I was also tasked with creating an illustration for the UT tower.
Office
Work from Home: Kitchen Space
Tower
As the list of assets required for the pre-roll were getting finalized, we proceeded to create and rig the characters that will show up in the animation. I was tasked with two students and a boss character!
Character 1
Character 3
Boss Character
Overall, it’s nice work on an animation project again! As I get closer to graduating, it’s become prevalent to me what skills I want to be better at, animation being one of them. I look forward to seeing what the rest of this project has in store for me as I go into my final semester!
— Roster Poster Continued —
I continued to work on the Fall 2025 STA Roster Poster. Many many more iterations were pumped out. At this point, I was also considering having the poster be horizontal after getting the exact number of STAs for the Fall.
Keith Haring Style:
Comic Style:
A prevalent struggle I had while iterating was finding ways to make the comic style poster just as strong as the Keith Haring one. De’sha and I continued to discuss and explore ways to put them on even footing.
— Zapoteco Book Cover —
I was tasked with creating a illustrative book cover for the Zapoteco Pressbook. The client requested an illustration highlighting significant animals such as the Alcaraván bird depicted below. Due to time constraints, I had to shortcut the bird illustration by applying a filter in photoshop over the original image to give it a hand drawn effect. The left is my first draft and the right is my final.
— Hecho En Texas —
This was the first project I worked on during the summer. I was tasked to create assets for a pressbook. It was a new type of project to me, but I found it similar to course graphics. (Still in progress during this time)
Logo Sketches:
Logo Vectorized:
Textbook Cover Iterations:
Section Banners:
— Course Graphics–
Canvas Homepage Banner and Dashboard for GOV310L:
Text edits to SOC302:
New graphics for ARH301 (Still in progress at this time):
Buttons:
Canvas Dashboard and Homepage:
Powerpoint Slides:
Ipad Overlay Options:
TA Backdrop:
— Roster Poster–
I was excited to be assigned another poster! The theme for my particular poster is Pop Art. Exploring different iterations was so fun- especially for the Keith Haring designs.
Comic Iterations:
Keith Haring Iterations:
— 2025 STA PRESENTATION —
This first half of this month was dedicated to the 2025 STA presentations- plenty of projects for the Design team! On top of my project for the event, I was chosen to present! I presented the IPE project alongside Lila with her talking about animation and me explaining the illustrations.
— Horizontal Presentation Poster —
I was tasked with making a single horizontal version of the posters I made earlier in the year for the video team to use in the presentation reel. This was challenging and took longer than I expected since the two posters couldn’t be put together seamlessly without editing. Regardless, I’m satisfied with the final result and was happy to see it on presentation day.
— COFA + COE Arts Integration Course Development —
In the last half of April, I began to work on the course graphics for TD 302 S Arts Integration for Multidisciplinary Connections.
I began working on the Canvas homepage banners. The client requested a total of 4 banners: 3 independent banners and 1 where the 3 banners come together seamlessly. I found this challenging since the client wanted to utilize photos of Nick Cave’s sound suits. These are very colorful and extravagant- so I had to not only ensure that I make 3 banners that come together cohesively, but also make sure the graphics don’t distract from the text.
Below are my first two passes where I explored the sound suit idea and an original graphic:
Some feedback I received:
Here is my second pass with a couple of options:
