NOVEMBER 2025

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— Summer Marketing Pre-Roll Animation Continued—

This month was spent focusing on the pre-production for the summer marketing pre-roll! I spent a lot of taking making edits to existing assets as we received feedback as well as creating a new scene with the UT Tower.

UT Tower

The UT Tower background was pretty straightforward! While it looks complex, I was able to utilize and make adjustments to an existing tower asset created for the last pre-roll.

Boss Character

The edits to the Boss Character were rather simple! I was asked to make him look a bit older to sell the role to the view better.

Kitchen

For the kitchen scene, I was asked to make the space feel more like a home.

Winter Break 2025

This break was mainly a chance for me to rest after the craziness that was last semester. That said, during the first week, I worked for LAITS a little bit and also worked on my portfolio :’). For fun, I caught up with old friends from high school, went on a cruise to the Caribbean with my family, and watched a ton of Star Wars!

Goodbye STA Team!

It’s hard to believe, but I am officially a college graduate, which means it’s time for me to move on from my position as an STA. I am truly grateful for my time at LAITS. This team felt welcoming and supportive from the very start and I met a lot of wonderful people along the way. I credit a lot of my artistic and personal growth to the experiences I had here, so thank you <3

SOC325K Course Graphics

First Drafts

Final Design

STA End of Year Celebration Flyer

Project Details

We will be holding a end of year celebration the day after the last class day to celebrate all of our amazing STAs. There will be food, drinks and a lot of fun. With that, we need a flyer that helps promote this social. Design a fun and playful flyer that encourages people to join the festivities. The flyer should feel inclusive and if there are people illustrations, ensure that it captures all of the STA groups. 

Drafts

I started by creating some rough sketches of the flyer to figure out the layout. I wanted it to feel warm, playful, and welcoming, so I went with a very whimsical illustration style. The notes I received from my Art Director were to add more animals to the illustration to make it feel like a group celebration and to make each animals represent an STA department.

In my next draft, I added 2 more animals and gave each of them an object to represent their STA team (ex. headphones for audio and a camera for video). At this point, I also brought the illustration into Illustrator to add the text and paper texture overlay. A few more notes I got were to add pizza to the table and to change the color of the drinks.

Final Design

And here’s the final design! I’m really happy with how this turned out, I think it’s very cute and I love the colors!

GOV350K Statistical Analysis in Political Science: Course Graphics

I’ve been tasked with creating a Tier 1 (Base) package of course graphics for Professor Stephen Jesse’s course GOV 350K Statistical Analysis in Political Science!

➜ Design Drafts: I started out this assignment by ideating on a few designs that could be used in the different components of this course graphics package (including Canvas banner, dashboard, ect). My instructions were to use blue tones, and blurry imagery of data/charts. I used Adobe Photoshop to combine different stock images I found, and added different effects and elements until I came up with these designs:

Here is a visualization of what these graphics may look like on a Canvas Homepage Banner:

We decided to stick with the rightmost graphic. Using this graphic, and the “Topaz Blue” color requested, I created the PowerPoint Backgrounds, iPad Overlay, Canvas Callout Buttons, and Canvas Banner and Dashboard (in style B).

These assets were finalized after a few adjustments, such as making sure the UT branding on the Canvas Banner is white to provide contrast with the background, and bolding the Canvas Callout Button text to better fill the space. I also ended up lightening the contrast and de-emphasizing deep blue tones on the Banner and Dashboard graphic to better match the topaz blue coloring of the text box.

➜ Reflection: This course graphic set helped me practice timely communication both my Art Director (Lila) and the client, ensuring our client received all final assets in the timeframe that was requested. I also feel like I now have a strong understanding of how to use the course graphics template to create original assets.

➜ Project Status: Completed (02/06/26)