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. [WPGP gif_id=”21876″ width=”600″] [WPGP gif_id=”21878″ width=”600″]  [WPGP gif_id=”21885″ width=”600″]

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.

[WPGP gif_id=”21808″ width=”600″] 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;)

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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!

 

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