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Shanda Horm

Shanda Horm

JANUARY 2026

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JANUARY 2026

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— Spring 2026 STA Roster Poster–

I worked on this assignment in December and the first half of winter break; however, I finished it up during this month and will share my process here!

This poster was very fun! I loved being able to return to Photoshop after spending many weeks in Illustrator. Having the freedom to create fun and expressive doodles was refreshing and I enjoyed myself a lot during the creation of this poster.

Since I was picking up the assignment, I was able to jump right in without having to do much planning. Taking in the previous feedback, references provided, and existing poster, I got right to work!

Sketch for the poster title

As we got the final list of STAs in, there had to be some adjustments to who was on which Spring Roster Poster. We swapped Classroom Support and Design for Computer Support and Audio from the Minimalist Poster to even out the amount of STAs while keeping a similar layout to the previous draft.

— Summer Marketing Pre-Roll Animation Continued—

After finishing the frame-by-frame animation for the graduation scene, I was tasked with making some edits as feedback came in. One of these was making edits to the pricing scene. I was requested to add more interest to the background of the scene and bring more attention to the text. Lila suggested make it as if they’re coming from fireworks.

Here is the New Pre-Roll draft (as of the end of January):

Winter Break

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WINTER BREAK 2025

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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!

NOVEMBER

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NOVEMBER 2025

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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.

October

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OCTOBER 2025

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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!

September 2025

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SEPTEMBER 2025

— 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.


SUMMER 2025

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SUMMER 2025

— 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: