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Shanda Horm

Shanda Horm

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.

Summer!

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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!