STA Clio and Canvasser Hub

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:

Poonum’s PSD Texture Training

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:

COLA Public Affairs Last Scene

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:

 

Quantum Computing Animation

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:

This was the first week I’ve worked in months, and I’m so happy to be back! I really enjoy working here at LAITS and am looking forward to continuing to do so through the summer.

That said, this week was a pretty chill one. I worked on one small Cascade help request (adding a new user), and besides that I’ve been working on feedback for the KB, specifically Megan’s Web Accessibility training. Running through this, it’s been really helpful and I think will be a great training for future STAs to do.

I learned that some sites even have accessibility plug-ins to customize site design, which although this may be inconvenient for certain sites, I think should be implemented more in web design.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2021/06/03/summer-21/

Bye for now!

I’m logging off for the summer – catch me again in the fall!

Humanities Banner

I got a small assignment last week to create a new web banner for the Humanities Institute and upload it to Cascade. I made a few drafts in Illustrator with the institute’s new logo.

The drafts are either solid or textured or blue or gray. The texture is the ball-and-line element from the logo faded almost all the way into the background to add depth and dress up the banner a bit. The color version of the logo’s dom color is blue (hence the blue option) and the grayscale version was provided to give some options.

Color Correction Training

Brightness/Contrast

Color Balance

Curves

Exposure

Hue and Saturation

Isolated Color

Levels

Photo Filter

Shadows/Highlights

Vibrance

ECO304L Final Animation

I finally finished the entire animation for the ECO304L course. It consist of 3 different types of currencies folding into different origami shapes. This project was difficult at times to figure out how to mimic how the shape folds, but I really enjoyed creating it. I was able to go beyond my own creativity and do something completely different.

 

 

ECO304L Design Assets

After I completed the animation, I worked on the course graphics for this course. These assets are from the style B template. Since the theme of the animation was different currencies, I wanted to also use that in the course graphic. Therefore, I used an image of different currency bills rolled up. I also used the same blue color in the graphics like in the animation.

ECO304L_powerpoint