Shanda Horm – Page 3

9/9/24 – 9/13/24

October 16, 2024 By Shanda Horm

9/9/24 – 9/13/24

This entire week I worked in the Voting PSA animation.

Here is the final product:

This animation was my first big animation project here at LAITS. Throughout the process, I learned a lot about Adobe After Effects- a program I was not at all comfortable with until now. Before going into this project, I was worried about my lack of knowledge of After Effects; however, I was surprised how fast I developed a workflow. Overall, working on this animation allowed me to become comfortable with After Effects and create a proper workflow for the rest of the Voting PSA animations I’ll be working on!

9/2/24 – 9/5/24

September 11, 2024 By Shanda Horm

9/2/24 – 9/5/24

This week I just worked on various iterations of the icons that will be used in the Voting PSA animation I’m working on.

Here are three mockups I created with some of the icon iterations:

We decided to go with the second mockup! I then got the ok to begin the actual animation.

8/26/24 – 8/29-24

September 3, 2024 By Shanda Horm

8/26/24 – 8/29-24

This week, I went right back to working on the Voting PSA animation.

I ended my summer session by submitting two animatics and received feedback on them when I came back for the school year. Here are the two animatics:

Reminder with text:
https://utexas.box.com/s/mpqtar3ozbfy0p95ardilnp6x9ibzwkm

Reminder with clock:
https://utexas.box.com/s/xb9hs0d9d1pns13ufrauaidpw64nv51m

The first animatic was chosen and I was tasked with adjusting it further by changing the color palette. That can be seen in this animatic:

https://utexas.box.com/s/w9d79n9i2dsv19p9b2lq189d457vw1ob

This was approved and I began on the icons that will be used for the animation. Here is the first iteration of the icons I created.

Summer!

August 28, 2024 By Shanda Horm

Summer!

I spent most of my summer working here at LAITS; however, when I wasn’t working, I spent my time exploring Austin alongside my friends who also resided here over the summer. We visited many of the local coffee shops, shopped at thrift stores for clothes and knick-knacks, and tried many restaurants!

Another thing I dedicated a lot of time to was working on projects for my portfolio. I decided to revamp my entire portfolio to better showcase my best work to try and land an internship for the summer going into my senior year.

After the end of my summer session at LAITS, I returned home to Houston while I waited out the gaps between my old and new apartment’s lease. A week or so after moving in, I went on a 3-day trip to New York City with some friends! It was the first time I went on a trip with friends so it was very exciting.

This was the first summer where I spent most of it away from my family. I did miss them, but I felt like this summer was great for allowing me to grow more as an individual! I hope I can continue to keep this up throughout the school year!