LAITS Student Technology Assistants collaborate with the College of Liberal Arts faculty and administration by re-imagining their instructional and promotional projects with a creative use of video, audio, web and graphic design. STAs learn technical skills on the job with LAITS development studio staff. They build presentations, produce audio/visual works, scan text documents & perform image correction. STAs are instrumental in helping COLA faculty realize their vision for instructional technology projects used to enhance the teaching and learning experience.
This week, I worked on several different things: from continuing my diagram to working on multiple photo ID’s to helping Bethany out with her TD301 project. Lauren also taught us how to use Adobe Animation, which is extremely cool. Can’t wait to start the RUS406 project!
What the diagram looks so far:
Some cropping jobs I did for Bethany’s project:
Animation that Lauren taught us:
The past few days, I have been learning how to create short animations (with lots of guidance from Lauren) for the Russian course using Adobe Animate.
Here is a still from the short animation walk-through I did today.
Also, Suloni guided me through COLA ID Processing, though I was not able to complete any IDs because an error occurred regarding Qualtrics and the photos were not received. However, this allowed me to practice client correspondence as I sent emails to the grad students whose photos needed resubmitting.
Another RUS406 project we’re working on is character illustrations. These characters need to be drawn in different views with moveable parts so that they can later be adjusted for poses:
Polina is one of the main characters so she is more developed than the first two. She has the ball joints to make it easier for her to change poses, and went through a few changes with her appearance as I kept working:
This was the original design for Polina:
After changing the eyes, I made her into a profile view and created different poses:
I then created sitting poses:
And this is the last version of Polina where she is more saturated and easier to see:
I also went and made a clipping masks for their hair to match Oleg’s character design
This is for Theater and Dance’s new online course called “Theater Makers”. I will be illustrating different theater members from the actor to the producer. This process requires a line drawing and coloring so that we can make a transition from the two as they are discussed:
This is close to what the finished product will look like:
Also for the Journalism course, I made these two graphics for the course’s “Graphics” module:
The first graphic is intentionally difficult to read to show an example of a “bad graphic”:
These next graphics are depicting yearly oil consumption of each continent using oil drops rather than a bar graph:
And this is the updated version with the correct barrel number for Australia:
Once I received the images and text for these cards, I was able to replace all the pre-existing icons and descriptions for these Journalism modules:
