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What I’ve been up to recently

I’ve been busy this week! Yesterday, I updated the Diversity & Inclusion CLIO course’s flip cards to have “headlines” on the answers.

I also got my anti-racism resources banner approved for the history department! You can see it in a post below. Other than that, I’ve been working with Ingrid and Cristina to copy over content from old PowerPoints for HIS 315K. I learned some new things about the Puritans in the process! I also made an intro slide for CH 302C Principles of Chemistry II for an old professor of mine, Dr. Biberdorf (she was great in ChemBridge!) so that the audio department can work with it.

What a week!

D&I training

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Diversity & Inclusion CLIO training

Thuy, De’sha, and I have been working on a CLIO course for the university’s diversity and inclusion training. I’ve been putting in the content for page 3, Legal Requirements, this week. I’ve put the CSS flip cards with each question, answer, and audio embed into a CSS flex box layout, so it’ll be responsive to smaller screens — like cell phones — and larger screens, like iMacs.

Anti-Racism Resources Banner

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Anti-Racism Resources Banner

I got started on a banner for the history department’s website last week! I took photos from the client, set them next to each other in Photoshop, then added a blue overlay. I used orange text with a drop shadow and rectangles to evenly “space” the photos out.

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AI Live Trace Training:

I worked on taking an image and converting it into a vector graphic using Illustrator. I really liked this tool and the results look amazing. Here’s some of the design process behind it:

Green Screen Basic Training:

This quick tutorial was a nice reminder of how to place objects (people in this case) into scenes. I find this really helpful since architecture renderings use this all the time. Here are some pics of the design process:

Study Tips / Wellness Videos

This is the largest project I’ve been involved in and I’m very excited for it. We will be creating an animation of two videos in which assets we created in Photoshop will be animated in After Effects. I was mostly involved in creating zoomed in frames for a laptop, a calendar and a whiteboard.

The first part of the project involved creating a storyboard:

StudyTips-StoryBoard-v4

Next, I created the individual assets so that they could move independently in the animation. So far, I’ve been able to create all the assets for the laptop frames:

I’m excited to see how this will look once it’s done!