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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.

 

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.

RUS Illustrations

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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: