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Last week after completing the Ethics and Fairness course graphics. I working on the ECO204K stinger animations. There were three stingers total.
I also added some slight changes to the text animation by adding some easy ease to make the animation smoother.
I completed the Photo Sourcing and Color Grading training, which taught me how to use gradient maps and color matching to create a coherent aesthetic or style for images. I found this training super fun and easy, and thought I’d share my results below —
For the gradient map part I was asked to choose my favorite film as a starting point. I don’t exactly know if I have a favorite film, to be honest, but Suspiria (1977) is definitely one of my favorites, so I went with it. It’s a stunning movie that I recommend to anyone who hasn’t seen it!
I used the following screencap as a source for colors:
Here were the resultant images:
I took Monday off this week for a medical appointment at a weird time. Here’s what I worked on this week and last week! I also was able to schedule a meeting with Marla to discuss Chatter numbers and whatnot for the PR project. I plan on talking with Chris Pittman next, and hopefully Matthew nails down the faculty presentation soon.
Ingrid, Angie, Abriella and I have all been working to update the photo ID aesthetic guidelines and training. Last week, we finished the aesthetic edits slide deck, and this week, we chose photos — categorized into easy, medium and hard — for new STAs to practice on. Here are examples:
Here are a couple of slides from the slide deck. I actually learned about the selective color tool from Cristina — changed my life. I also tried to emphasize in the slide deck that most photos will need more than one type of edit, and some edits require others after (like cool color balance –> vibrance)
This was super fun! Thanks to Sheryl for making it! For ~fall vibes~ I chose to match colors to Wes Anderson’s adaptation of “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” incidentally one of my favorite movies.
This week I also created two new buttons for the AFR320 course.
Project: COLA Website Refresher
Client /Prof: N/A (College of Liberal Arts)
Completion Status: Started August 25, 2021
Staff guidance: Michelle Vanhoose, Chris Rankin
STA team members: Ingrid, Adrian
description/plans: Continue migrating data from the old CMS to the new CMS
To be completed: TBD (long-term)
Hey everyone. This week I migrated more COLA pages, mostly the language ones which were a lot easier to migrate than the tables. I also updated some of my previous pages with the tables using the HTML source code which made formatting look a lot nicer.
Project: Blanton Website Migration
Client /Prof: Blanton Museum
Completion Status: Started August 23, 2021
Staff guidance: Ruben Garza
STA team members: Asmita, Marianne, Angie, Abriella
description/plans: Work on migrating the current Blanton museum website pages to the WordPress site
To be completed: TBD (long-term)
I started working on the Blanton Website Migration and started migrating pages there as well. Blanton, as I’ve been told, is a massive project so I’m sure that there will be lots of work to do between COLA and Blanton. I also got to attend the STA Fall Welcome Back Party, which was a lot of fun as I got to tour the building and meet the other departments as well as make origami and buttons. Here’s a Blanton page that I worked on.
This week I have been working on completing the Ethics and Fairness course graphics. Besides the studio backdrop, the course graphics a quite simple to put together.
I also ended up creating a collage backdrop for this course when it wasn’t necessary. But I feel that is still looks really good.
Now I am currently trying to figure out what is the best backdrop version with a subtle design. Here are the different versions with the studio test.
I personally like the darker versions better. I feel like they provided a great contrast for the professor. I feel like the design could be lowered in opacity to provide the more subtle approach.
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