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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!

412K First Set of Animations Progress

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412K First Set of Animations Progress

We’ve all been chugging away at the RUS412 Animations, I’ve made some progress on some of the early final animations for this project that I’ve attached below:

This animation required a lot of action that I wanted to boil down into the minimal amount of animation possible.

This animation, on the other hand, has less action but I’ve been developing more nuanced action for it as well.

Getting better and better at using motion tweens to my advantage!

Added a little “hum” movement to the bus to suggest the engine is running, also worked a lot with shadows here.

Just getting started on this animation, but I’m excited to see how it progresses!

This animation made use of very large photoshop files and motion tweens to convey movement and depth.

RUS412K Animations Cafe Door

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RUS412K Animations Cafe Door

 

Today I finished up a CU of the “Cafe” door for the Russian animations. A similar background had been created for the previous semester but it did not match the new style and needed to be updated.