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Week 3/4 – 3/8 and 3/18 – 3/22

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Summer Marketing in Action!

 

(more to come soon…)

 

Canvas Banner Ads:

        • Summer Marketing needed a graphic that was 125 x 125 pixels to accompany the Canvas Banner ads. Because the pixel space was limited, we decided to use the $500 sticker featured on other promotional assets.

 

FINAL:

Email:

        • These graphics will accompany promotion for the summer online courses in a CoLA email. The four versions below are based on the colors/designs from this year’s Spring Postcard and 11×17 posters.

Week 2/26 – 3/1

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SDS 301 – Elementary Statistical Methods Course Graphics

Start: February 26, 2024

To be Completed by: N/A

Staff Guidance: De’sha & Hayley

Client: Dr. Sally Ragsdale

Description: The client requested for a new course graphic design in Style B. They asked for the Canvas graphics (Dashboard, Homepage Banner, and Buttons), and PPT slides (Course Title slide and Lecture Segment slide) with no PPT preference.

 

I started out by testing different designs with the given images and created the first iterations.

 

I choose to go with the scatterplot image because its dimensions fit the other graphics better than the line graph image. Afterward, I create the rest of the canvas and PPT slides with the chosen image.

Canvas Dashboard:

Canvas Homepage Banner:

Canvas Buttons:

 

PPT slides:

 

Design Menu:

 

Week 2/19-2/23

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2024 Election Day Tomorrow/Election Day Today Voting PSA

Start: February 20, 2024

To be Completed by: February 29, 2024

Staff Guidance: De’sha

Description: For this year’s election, the client is looking for a new illustrations to be included in the Election Day Tomorrow and Election Day Today Voting PSA. They requested to follow the same pre-existing color palette, font families, and overall layout.

 

I started drawing some sketches and reused some from the previous voting PSAs to get a general idea of what the illustration would end up being.

 

Once I talked to De’sha, I proceeded to fully develop two designs by fully coloring it and adding dimension such as shadows.

After creating the illustrations, I started making the psa and getting the general layout/colors. For these iterations, however, I noted that the background color and letters were clashing making it difficult to read.

 

In my next iteration I address the previous issues by lowering the background tones and decreasing the illustrations’ opacity. I also tried out a slightly different layouts by showcasing two alignments of the text “POLLS ARE OPEN…”.

 

My last iteration consisted of minor adjustments, like all text being left aligned and making the VOTE sticker be the illustration for Tommorrow is Election Day voting PSA and the I VOTED sticker for Election Day Today voting PSA.

Elections Day Tomorrow

Election Day Today

 

PSY 333D – Introduction to Developmental Psychology Course Graphics

Start: February 19, 2024

To be Completed by: February 27, 2024

Staff Guidance: De’sha & Hayley Barnett

Client: Dr. Jessica Church-Lang

Description: The client requested for a new title card slide to replace the current title cards in an existing video. The professor has lectures with long titles that the existing title card had little space for. Thus, they asked for a new title card with enough space, similar color scheme, and with an additional logo/graphic, possibly from the intro video they provided.

 

I first decided to choose the purple background they provided to match the current graphics. Then I created the first iterations with two graphics found in the UT Box and positioned them to the left while leaving the right for the title. For the title, I left aligned it and centered.

 

The feedback I received consisted of:

  • longer titles might be too crowded
  • decreasing the icon size & moving it away from the edges
  • change the “Professor” to “Dr.”
  • using the blocks graphics

I created a couple more iterations with the feedback in mind, especially letting the title have more space for lectures with longer titles such as “Nature/Nurture, Active/Passive, Similar/Independent: Course Themes and Goals”.

 

The subsequent iterations were made from the left aligned text with the course title and professor’s name aligned with the block tower:

 

In the end, the client chose the layout with the title on top and the professor’s name at the bottom aligned with the blocks tower.

 

WEEK 36

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WEEK 36 + 37

Project: Shiny App

Started on: Feb 26, 2023

Ended on: Mar 4, 2023

Staff Guidance: Stacy

Description: 

 

 

Project: Shiny App (Part 2)

Started on: Mar 4, 2023

Ended on: Mar 7, 2023

Staff Guidance: Stacy

Description: 

  • The client wants a new map to be hosted and developed in shiny app.
  • The process is very similar to the previous project when I need to display a fully functional map with sliders and zoom working properly.
  • Therefore, applying what I know from before, I can generate a temporary HTML file and display that on the website
  • Also, I just finished the functionality of downloading the map.

 

Project: Whisper AI

Started on:  Feb 19, 2023

Ended on:  Mar 4, 2023

Staff Guidance: Chris

Description: Finish the evaluation for Whisper AI 

Whisper AI 

  • The Whisper AI converts the audio file into a spectrogram to analyze and predict the corresponding text captions.
  • It takes a 30 second chunk of input, converts it into a log-Model spectrogram, analyzes the image and applies encoding-decoding architecture to predict the text caption based on those images. 

Some key insights: 

  • Lower HST produces much cleaner version of text (not including filter words as much as higher HST (from 0.2 to 0.5)) 
  • There are some variation of inference ability of each time: eg. truth work done instead of tooth work done. Therefore, a lot of words are predicted differently 
  • Even with the same threshold, there is variation in running the models from time to time. 
  • A lot of models do not capture the first intro sentence from the lady. 
  • 1.3 is the fastest and 0.1 is the slowest -> Might suggest that as the parameter increases, the time it takes is faster -> It means it does not need to re-process so many times. With 0.1, it means that it re-process every 0.1 sec after silence is detected -> suggesting more time to process

Link

Week 2/26 – 3/1

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Pre-Course Video Approval!

This week has been pretty eventful! I can’t wait to show off one of the approved drafts of the Pre-course video, I’m really happy with how it came out. I’ve also been assigned to work on an upcoming project that has a high involvement with illustration and comics!

Pre-Course Video

It is done! Well, as of now it’s done. The video went through many notes from the original animatic. Luckily, with the workflow from Illustrator to After Effects, making edits was relativley painless, but my file organization became pretty messy.

Here’s the approved draft!

I’m still surprised I was able to make this. It was very out of my comfort zone but I had fun with it!

I’m especially really happy with the segments that portray the studio more accurately. They’re just really cute to look at. The map segment was a part that took a little more planning and notes since it was a little hard to figure how to make the class exits clear and also engaging. With the help of my supervisor, we were able to figure out the scene.

I’m so glad it has a finalized look that can hopefully be shown to students.

 

Spring 2024 Week 7

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STA Roster Poster Spring 2024

Client/Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on Jan 23
Staff Guidance: De’sha

I started working on this new version, the goal being to have the STAs more as the center piece rather than other objects:

Then we changed direction entirely! The new idea is to make STAs look like they’re on pins/stickers from a carnival/event. Here is what I’ve been working on so far:

Texas German Retractable Banner #11

Client/Prof: Margaret Blevins
Completion Status: Started on Feb 20
Staff Guidance: De’sha

First draft done!