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Shanda Horm

Shanda Horm

October

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October

After being out for the first week of October due to being sick, I was left with one less week to work on the Early Voting animations and the rest of the animations. While I was able to get the Early Voting animations in on time, I feel the animations could be better if I had more time for a couple more rounds of feedback.

It was then time to move on to the last two animations: “Tomorrow is Election Day” and “Today is Election Day.” I was able to complete these rather quickly because I was able to use assets and animations from the previous animations. A few adjustments later- I officially completed all of the Voting PSA animations!

Here are the final icons used (Credits to De’sha for the vote early icon!):

And here are the final two animations:

Overall, I felt like this project allowed me to really get comfortable in After Effects! I had fun experimenting with different animations and learning the best workflow for me.

9/23/24 – 9/26/24

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9/23/24 – 9/26/24

I was still going back and forth between working on the STA poster and the Early Voting PSA animations.

Regarding the latter, I spent a lot of time working on the icons since I planned for this one to have a lot more than the previous animation. Below is my first pass at the icons and what I submitted this week for feedback.

The struggle I had with these icons was making sure they looked like they’re from the same family. For my first attempt at them, I believe I did ok- but the icons that have black in them do stand out from the rest.

The STA poster was also due soon, but I became sick around that time and couldn’t do the final edits; however, here is the final version of the poster!

9/16/24 – 9/19/24

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9/16/24 – 9/19/24

This week I was juggling two projects: an STA department poster and an early voting PSA animation. I would go back and forth between what I would work on depending on if I was waiting for feedback for one or the other.

Regarding the STA department poster, I tried to complete this one first due to the deadline. I was assigned the Lifecycle crew and I was to create a poster inspired by the movie “The Usual Suspects.”

In regards to the early voting PSA animation, this week was largely planning. I worked on and submitted an animation proposal. I drew from my past experience with working on the register to vote PSA animation- so I was able to get that done quickly!

Here is the proposal!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oiEeN1PeabH7Jo1S21zhQ6oUVQsyt4cjrPWaHawbL34/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p

One last minor thing I did earlier this week was synch up two different versions of the register to vote PSA to the animation I created for the first one!

9/9/24 – 9/13/24

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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

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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

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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.