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Sanika’s 1st Blog Post

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Sanika Bhave ~ STA Orientation 2018 Fall!

Welcome Sanika 🙂
i hope you have fun at your STA Orientation!
During the latter part of your STA Orientation,
you’ll design and upload your banner to this blog.
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FIRST STEP
Photoshop: Design and make your banner
a. Use the photoshop specs for your blog banner that i placed in your STA folder,
on our servers:
path: sta/SanikaBhave
folder: make-your-sta-blog-banner
file: sta-blog-banner-specs.jpg
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b. Save your un-merged files back to your STA folder:
path: sta/VSanikaBhave
folder: make-your-sta-blog-banner
SECOND STEP
On this Blog: Make your 1st text post and upload your banner:-)
a. log-in:
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b. Publishing Help Documentation/Instructions
You must read this WP sites “Publishing Help” before you upload your banner.
Click on each of these links and read the STA publishing help:
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c. Blog post:
Reflect on the day and write a bit about your about your-self & what you did during orientation
& upload your banner.
* do not merely copy paste images in to your blog.
Always upload images into the “Media” section of blog first,
and then set the image from the media folder to display on your blog.
* “Check the “2018 Fall – 2019 Spring” Category box
for all the blog posts you make this semester and next semester
so that all of your work is documented in the correct semesters.
LASTLY
Comment on Base amp
Let me know you’ve complete this task, via base camp.
Upload a link to this blog, on your base camp to-do.

Russian Illustration

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Illustration Update

Illustrations are always super fun for me! Its super relaxing working with flat colors.

 

 

I used warm brown colors because a lot of the Russian classrooms incorporate wood cabinets and tables with lots of green plants! All of the textures are overlays of real photos of wood. There are multiple students present in the scene, so I tried to keep the focus on Polina by having classmates crowding around her and looking in her direction (so popular.).

 

Week of 10/8

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Week of 10/8

This week I finished another V Lab! As a completionist, it stresses me out that I can’t incorporate a lot of things into the new site. But I think I’m finally done with V Labs for now, even though the project as a whole is still ongoing.

I also edited some COLA IDs:

That last ID is one of my faves; the color of the man’s shirt compared to the background and the color of the flowers just looks so good!

Finally, I got to do some animation work again (yesssssss) and my task this time was to make the angles for the young child of the Glasses Boy and Awake Girl that was the crawling baby from last time (boy they sure grow up fast!)

She’s basically a combination of her dad and mom, so she has components from both parents in her design. Also I’m assuming she likes cats.

Week of 10/1

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Week of 10/1

No new exciting graphics this week, since I mostly just worked on Anthro V Labs and Cascade re-documentation edits. Here’s the info again for the V Labs project:

project: Updating Anthropology Virtual Labs
completion status: Started September 2018
staff guidance: Estella Sun
STA team members: Bridget, Valerie, Emily, Chloe, Duo
description/plans: Transfer all the text and images from the old Flash website to a new site that can be accessed by future students.
To be completed: ASAP

I finally finished my portion (Lab #6). A lot of one section ended up being videos so I didn’t have to do much for them.

There was this one page that had about 200 definition terms that I had to re-format. I think I straight up entered the void while I was working on them; it was so monotonous.

https://anthro-virtual-labs.development.la.utexas.edu/menu/lab-06/section-04

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Next, I also worked on Cascade re-documentation. My task was to make edits to the instructions draft using Andre’s edits.

project: Cascade Documentation
completion status: Started Oct 1 (for me at least)
staff guidance: Estella Sun
STA team members: Bridget, Chloe
description/plans: Making edits for Cascade re-documentation draft referencing Andre’s edits PDF
To be completed: Oct 12

Thanks for Estella organizing both of these projects!