Last week, I mainly worked on the RUS 412 project for both the animation & the illustration. For the animation, Tate has assigned me my first watercolor background, and it was fun to experiment with the different brushes. I also struggled a lot to “free draw” the lines without holding Shift when doing “straight” outlines for the buildings for the ~natural~ feel. This is the progression for the background:

First attempt:

Final version with all the details:

I also worked on another illustration scene – U5_8:

scene description: Polina and Oleg are standing in front of Boris’ favorite office chair. It’s old and needs repairing and a new coat of paint. They’re standing in front of it as if deciding how to fix it.

<initial sketch>

<first draft>

<finished basic coloring>

<final draft> – Suloni suggested that I add some kind of an artwork in the background, so I added a map that would go well with Boris’ study area atmosphere.

I also created new assets for the RUS 412 animation project – this time, I made light switches (on/off):

Last week, I worked on several different things, such as Cascade redocumentation & training for the Schusterman faculty, finishing my RUS 412 waiter character, Samantha’s farewell card, and also starting a watercolor background for RUS412 animation that Tate assigned to me.

For cascade redocumentation/ training, the assigned STA’s were paired up with a faculty member who came into the office, and I got to answer some of Dr.Lichtenstein’s questions. It was kind of scary at first because I am still not 100% confident with cascade, but overall I was able to navigate her through the website and the different steps of overcoming her issues!

I also added the waiter’s hats for the 3/4 front and 3/4 back positions:

I was able to finish Samantha’s farewell card as well – I added in the purple + green because that is the color palette that she likes (according to Suloni). I also added in a fun illustration of her and her dog in the hot air balloon to make it more ~personalized~.

Finally, I started on the watercolor background for one of the RUS412 animation scenes. I have a lot of adjustments to make, such as drawing in doors/ windows to the buildings, but I hope to get it done by the end of today!

ARH301

This week we decided on a final version of the digital display for ARH301. This is the one which ending up looking best on the screen, which has an extremely blue tint for some reason. It took a lot of experimenting with color balance, brightness, contrast, etc, to get a version that doesn’t look muddied out or overly blue, but I think we got it to work eventually. Because other STA’s are going to be working on more digital displays for other classes, I’m going to try to post screenshots of my layer organization and/or share my .psd file so that others can see what my process was (and so that we can be consistent across all our designs)

RUS

I worked on more objects for Russian this week! First, I was assigned to make a moving van.

I kept everything basically the same as the reference image except for the green/gray back part of the truck.

I also made transparent plastic bags for the cookies:

For illustrations, I worked on a new one where Little Prince is looking out the window at a bird in an apple tree.

Process:

This initial sketch showed Little Prince facing outwards, with the emphasis placed on the tree and bird.

Then, based on feedback from Kathy and Suloni, I changed up the composition to show Little Prince’s face, so that it was more obvious what he is staring at.

After coloring, this is what it ended up looking like:

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2018/07/31/23910-2/

UT Poll

I played around with idea of a pie chart and a timer around the UT tower logo, and came up with a 3D version of the pie chart that Marla is really interested in. I’ll continue working on the design and incorporate a bar graph instead of a tower into it.