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This week, I spent the majority of my work time on OCILL. I’m attaching a screenshot of some of my work.
I’m also going to be helping Abriella with a scanning project early next week.
Also! Going to Boston, Portland (ME), and Burlington next week, so stay tuned for some highlights on the blog in the coming weeks. :^)
So this week I only worked 8 hours, as I spent the majority of it on vacation. Here are a few highlights from the trip:
Work-wise, I worked some on KB edits and the animation script. We’re going with a short exploring the theme of dreams and working on different sequences drawing from the different people in the house. I am also about to meet with Cristina so I can start working on OCILL.
This week I attended a few different meetings for the Short Animation Team Project, Latinx Pop Lab site, and one more one-on-one meeting with Maddy today regarding the same project. I’ve been working on layout design for the Latinx Pop Lab in earnest on Figma. In between this, I’ve been working on KB edits for the Shape and Pattern and Web Accessibility trainings. Next week, I am only working 12 hours but I look forward to working more on this.
Last week, I was assigned the logo of a professor’s lecture series that covers, analyses, and discusses the Latinx’s cultural impact on the US. The professor specifically called for an alternative graphic that didn’t include the face on the middle of the logo (acting as the O in POP):
Here are some initial versions, which would be edited due to the O being too far apart from either P:
Here is a more finalized version, which has a wider O and a more accurate off-black color chosen in the original Ai file:
A professor in the Department of Geography & the Environment requested course graphics with the following notes about the color palette and style guide to be used:
The color palette matches what I could use to differentiate among the subsystems: Atmosphere (yellow), Hydrosphere (light blue or blue), Lithosphere (tan), Biosphere (green).
This class is all about the earth, a Geosystem, comprising the four subsystems above. So the earth from space (the Big Blue Marble), clouds, weather systems, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, mountains, rivers, coastal features, sand dunes, rock formations, lakes, pretty landscapes of any kind (from deserts to tropical forests to glaciers), pollution, climate change, plants, animals, etc.”
The professor requested the following course graphics:
I initially created four different versions using images from Unsplash that would fit the professor’s request:
Studio backdrop:
iPad Overlay:
Dashboard GFX
Homepage Banner:
Style B Buttons:
After some feedback from Poonum, we could agree that the image used as the background for the third version is the most fitting but needs a couple of adjustments for it to not look too glary. Below are three images showing the original, first edited, and corrected versions of the image:
This is the first-ever STA Fun Tuesday activity, making pixel art out of formatted cells in Google Sheets. Go team Mona Lisa 🙂
While I don’t have much to show other than notes and communication, the OCILL transfer project is under way as we prepare to transfer lecture content for a professor’s OCILL website to Canvas! I’ll have more updates on this on my next post.
This week I worked mostly on the redesign of the Latinx Pop Lab site. I’m basing the design off the Podcasts WP theme used on the Latinxperts podcasts site. After clarifying the assignment with Suloni and Maddy, I began mocking up the site in Figma. I used this plugin Abriella found that imports web pages to Figma, and it works pretty well.
I also recently sent an email to Professor Aldama to clarify whether he wants the repository to contain artists or artistic works.
The STA Hub is meant to be a place that hosts all of the STA’s Clio and Canvasser activities. So far, I’ve included a banner, intro paragraph for description, and a paragraph from each STA that outlines what they learned by working with these tools to create an interactive instructional experience. The below screenshot is how it’s looking so far:
This basic training is meant to teach STAs how to apply texture layers and masks to images. Here are some of the images I made from this training while giving it a test run for feedback:
Based on feedback from the video team, we were asked to create assets for a scene at the end of the video that would imitate an airport banner that would change flaps and reveal some text along the lines of “COLA – NOW BOARDING”. The following pics are a storyboard that helped me guide myself in creating the animation:
The scene needed an extended background that would seamlessly move from the laptop up to the banner. Below are the original and extended backgrounds:
Here is a preview of the last scene:
Instead of making the preview animation in PSD format, I imported the graphic assets into AfterEffects so I could add more fluidity and complexity to it. Below are both animations for reference:
