Some of the things I did as an STA:

I helped many professors with their websites, updating them, designing them and giving them new features.

I spent a lot of time working on a website called Texas Beyond History. We are trying to make the site more modern and I had a lot of jobs as it is such a big website. Some of these included formatting pages into WordPress friendly layouts, and reconstructing some of the interactive Flash portions using an HTML5 Canvas application, built by Ruben, called Canvasser.

I also worked on several COLA sites that Stacy manages. I did CSS design for Life and Letters Magazine website, Humanities Media Project and I built up a website for the Patton Challenge Project from scratch.

I also did a lot of work through Cascade, the content management system Andre built, to update many COLA sites and faculty profiles.

 

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Overall I enjoyed my time working here. I learned a lot from the different developers I got to work with and I had many challenging projects and fun assignments. I am thankful for Suloni, Andre, Stacy, Ruben, Johnathan and all of the LAITS staff and for all their help and being able to work with them. I had a lot of fun and I hope to see everyone again.

These are a few of the Russian illustrations I worked on over the summer:

Each illustration begins with a rough outline of the scene:

In order to have an accurate representation of Russian life and culture, we were given several source images from the professor that we could pull from:

Once the sketch was completed, puppet characters were added in the scenes:

Here are a few more of the completed and in-progress scenes:

I first made a few changes to the logo design:

Once a logo was chosen, I made some PowerPoint slides for the class:

Lastly, I helped guide out and create buttons for the canvas page:

 

Here is one of the COLA ID’s I did recently. I brightened the shadows on this guy’s face and made the image overall brighter.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2017/07/19/20810-2/

I’m starting to wrap up the what’s the story flash animation for one of the kids pages on TBH.

The difficult part has been the beginning and ending which have both been animation heavy.

The in between scenes have been laid out, all that is left is to add some small animations and click events.