Bird Logo:

Andrey Vasiliev from the Noun Project

Valeriy from the Noun Project

Ayub Irawan from the Noun Project

Cat Logo:

sandra from the Noun Project

Matt Hawdon from the Noun Project

Marco Hernandez from the Noun Project

Dog Logo:

Focus Lab from the Noun Project

Anastasia Latysheva from the Noun Project

Vectors Market from the Noun Project

Fish Logo:

Beatrix Rubio from the Noun Project

adinda from the Noun Project

Patrick Morrison from the Noun Project

Turtle Logo:

Cédric Villain from the Noun Project

Andrejs Kirma from the Noun Project

Ecem Acafan from the Noun Project

Basic Training: Green Screen Editing

Yesterday (or should I say Friday), I did the green screen training. It was super simple. I learned a new way to cut out an object, so that’s definitely something!

Starting E316 TA Orientation Graphics

Today, I got an assignment to create some Canvas graphics and a PowerPoint template for the basic English Lit TAs’ orientation. For now, I’m going with the dark blue from the UT secondary palette. Ideally, I would associate English lit with brown, but that’s not a brand color. Blue it is. So far, I’ve done the Canvas callout buttons:

It’s pretty smooth sailing so far. On Monday, I’ll do the rest of the Photoshop work for the Canvas dashboard and home page banner.

UPDATE: I have to redo them on Monday with new text! No problem, though.

The past week has been busy, but very fulfilling! I’ve been working on an assortment of Basic Training modules as well as digital studio backgrounds. Just recently, I finished the basic training for Cascade, and below is a screenshot of my test site:

I started working on the intermediate training for Cascade as well. I themed it off Berlin, one of my favorite cities and place I have a lot of opinions about.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2020/07/16/32698-2/

Fun Times with Cascade

Today, I did most of the Cascade editor basic training. I had a lot of fun with the fake news and event stories. It took my entire shift (4 hours today), but I had a good time making the fake site.

My First Attempt at a GIF

I cannot draw. When I have to, I’m basically flying by the seat of my pants. So of course, I was intimidated to do this “basic” training and draw not one, but about 10 frames of a short animation, especially because I don’t have a mouse, let alone a drawing tablet. But it wasn’t that bad! 8-bit art gives a lot of leeway for a lack of artistic talent.

Here’s my (very simple) GIF: