Hey! Just a quick update:

I’ve been spending my last few weeks polishing my old work. I played around with the spinning clock animation a bit more to make it complete and then spent some time figuring out how to improve Rockshelter. Finally I finished a new animation: the Population Puzzlers. The challenge with this one was basically that you had A LOT of different little picture and object interactions with minimum animations. It was kind of long and boring to make but I finally finished a version that looks almost identical to the original. Stay tuned for updates on Rockshelter.

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted a progress report so I thought I’d share some stuff today! I’ve been chugging along on both the Family Tree for the Oleg Illustrations and the animations for RUS407 online lectures and have made a lot of progress! Included here are a number of animation symbols, sets, costumes and cycles that I’ve completed! The Family Tree is almost complete, I’ll wait until it is finished to upload it;)

Another request I received was to update the website for the French/Italian grad program at UT. They had images representing the posters advertising the programs but the formatting was off and they were all different sizes. To fix this, Andre and I re-uploaded the posters and made them each into separate divs in html which allowed us to specify the correct size. I forgot to take a before screenshot but here is the result after:

I was requested to update the plan II video on http://liberalarts.utexas.edu/plan2/admission/index.php, because for some reason it had black bars on the top and bottom. Working with Andre we ended up using a Flex html plugin which allows us to embed youtube videos with widescreen formatting.

 

The code ended up looking like this:

<div class=”flex-video widescreen vimeo”><iframe width=”800″ height=”450″ allowfullscreen=”” frameborder=”0″ mozallowfullscreen=”” src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/7vktNhdGlA8″ webkitallowfullscreen=””></iframe></div>

 

And the result is here:

Made some good progress the last few days! Last week I was assigned a “Family Tree” illustration for the Oleg drawings. On Friday I found some reference material and made a mock-up of my planned illustration, and today I started drawing it, managing to get a large portion of the tree finalized! I also animated a calendar with pages being torn off, an animated symbol that will be used in a large portion of the RUS407 Animations! I included a gif of the swimming fish I completed awhile back as well. There is still a lot to do with those RUS407 Animations but I’m eager to keep making progress on them and the family tree!

 

Today was a long day. I was alone in the lab for my last shift: more than 5 hours!

I worked on my first challenging project for TBH. A page with a lot of simultaneous moving objects and layers. It took me a while to get it done but I’m very proud of it. Here are the results.