I processed more than a dozen ID Photos for CoLA graduate students and faculty. Some of the photos needed cleanups in Photoshop. Above shows the before and after of the staff profile photos.

Request:Create an animation with the different stages of children ( baby, toddler, 5-year old, and 10 year old). Each child at different stages will walk behind an object and then ” grow” to the next stage. Baby crawling then moves behind bear and is a toddler. Toddler walking and then moves behind abc blocks and turns in to 5 year old. 5 year old walks and then moves behind “bush, tree, …?” and turns into 10 year old. 10 year old starts off walking and notices a little girl waiting for him and they both run off to play ground.

Professor:

Project Managers: Ashley Schenker

STA’s : Anna Xu

Character Design References: https://www.pinterest.com/characterdesigh/

First found references for drawing baby’s and toddlers. Tend to be more rounder with bigger heads.

My Character Design:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Progress So Far:

My role is to create the animations and I am collaborating with out fellow STA Anna who will be creating the props that the character moves behind.

I think you can tell by the fluidity of each of the animations that there was a point when I got used to the movement. The baby is a bit glitchy and then the walk cycle of the toddler is a bit smoother but the arms are a bit strange. By the third walk cycle of the toddler I feel like I got a hand of it and by the 10 year old I was satisfied with the animation and moved onto completing the color. Might need to change the colors a bit since it differed from the ones on my computer screen.

Today I worked on updating a few more COLA ID pictures, including cropping, resizing, and a bit of color correction. I learned a little on how to use the shadow/highlight adjusters in photoshop and will probably get to use those more in the future!

Earlier in the summer I began the process of redesigning several important kids interactives on the Texas Beyond History site. The first of these was the Population Puzzlers interactive. Today I spent some time making minor adjustments to some visual assets, as well as going through and making the relevant buttons and graphics for each possible question and answer choice.

I’ve been editing files in the intro German site. I have completed about 3 hours of work, and 3 more hours remain until I can complete my part. My work is mainly reformatting the forum files to be uploaded again for the website. The forum is written in both English and German and includes lesson plans and teaching reflections.