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Week 5/20 – 5/24

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E316N World Literature

Start: May 21, 2024

Staff Guidance: De’sha

Client: Professor David Kornhaber

Description: Create assets for an E316N World Literature animated intro. I based my designs off of an animatic created by Lila and sketches from De’sha.

 

 

2024 Summer Orientation Video

Start: May 14, 2024

To be Completed by: May 16, 2024

Staff Guidance: De’sha

Client: LAITS

Description: Create handwritten graphics for the Summer Orientation video.

  • Lower thirds (5 Name) – isolated signatures from the students
  • Transparent title – Handwritten
  • Headers for outro – Handwritten

I started by physically writing out the main title, subtitles, names, etc. Then, I put the images into Illustrator to image trace and edit the text before exporting it as a transparent PNG. We created two versions of each student’s name, one style being consistent with the titles/subtitles, and the others being handwritten by the Orientation Advisors themselves. I added a drop shadow to the text so the white could still pop against light backgrounds.

 

Last post before summer!

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Wrapping up my projects

I got to work on a few pretty exciting projects these last few weeks so I’m very satisfied that I got to work on projects that I could not only complete but also enjoy working on before leaving for the semester.

World Literature Animated Intro

While I didn’t fully animate an intro for this class, I was given the task to think of an animatic for one of the world literature classes at UT.

This was fun to think of as it was simple but shows the transitions in time for world literature and theater. The book is by far the most complex asset for this animation.

Foundations of Data Science Logo and Animation

We have settled on a logo design!

The gears were a favorite for the client. Now I had to animate it.

This was a lot more tricky than I thought it would be because gears are surprisingly very complex. At least for me. Getting the timing right for the gear turning was a concern as a lot of the time the turning of one gear would offset the others and it would turn into a domino effect.

Luckily, I was suggested to slow down the turning which not only helped the pacing, but lessened the risk of the gears being offset. Here’s what I was able to finish with.

And once approved, I could add it to the intro animation template!

Week 5/6 – 5/10

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Summer Marketing

Email graphics: Similar to the Spring Digital Displays, we wanted to simplify the layout of the email graphics but also give notice to students on how much time was left to register for our summer online courses. ( “Last chance…”, “Registration opens soon”, “… open now”, etc.)

Digital Displays

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After

   

I was also asked to edit/prepare a $500 courses graphic without the MUS 307 courses since they have lower enrollment caps and are already filled. Keeping the same course order, I shifted the courses to have 5 in the left column and 5 in the right column instead of 6 and 6.

Before

After

5/1 – 5/7

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Foundations of Data Science

After my previous logo drafts I made a few more based off requests from the client. Here’s what I came up with.

I kept the gear theme since both the client and my supervisor liked it and I think it would make a fun logo to animate. They suggested the concept of regression on a graph in the design and the other gear is a more refined puzzle piece look.

I also worked on some backdrops for the course graphics.

pretty basic but productive work.

PSY317K Intro Animation

I was tasked with reanimating and intro animation for one of the general physics classes. I was basically given an After Effects template and some stock footage to replace the current footage and I was set to go.

Here’s how it looks!

I’ve grown to really enjoy working in After Effects. It’s one of those programs that’s insanely intimidating and powerful but you really end up using only 1/4 of the program than necessary. I look forward to new After Effects projects.