Coming back and watching Clio become adopted by so many people across UT is a surreal feeling. I’m glad to be back on the team that created it, where I’m working on new features that will make the software even easier to use, as well as feature upgrades/bug fixes for the version in production.
Hello world! First and foremost, I now have a completed Oleg Family Tree! I have posted that file here along with some of the earlier drafts to show some of the process. And I am getting close to wrapping up all of the basic symbols and animations for RUS407, I have included some of the progress I’ve made there as well. The dog walk cycle has been looped with three different colors so it can be used with three different dogs. There are also some set pieces and I added a range of eyebrow movements to give the characters more expression. I have learned so much from working on both of these projects, I’m looking forward to working on illustrating the Oleg scene that the Family Tree will appear in as well as finalizing some of these RUS 407 animations! Oh, and I also completed an STA blog picture! I have included that illustration at the end.
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;)
A “Mother” outfitA “Lecture Hall”A Briefcase and Fedora for some office scenes.Will be on the map of the world for some animations where a plane flies in between Russia and America.Will also be on a map of the world for the animations where a plane flies between America and Russia, may have snow on it or leaves falling down depending on the season.A “Child” Outfit
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.
