I have been working on drafting some logos for NWAV

I wrote down details on paper and did some rough sketches and jotted down some ideas!

 

I then started sketching digitally. These are very rough. nwav are all naturally curvy letters, so if written a certain way, they can resemble “waves.” I also decided to draw some color inspiration from Austin and Spectrograms.

 

Played with the idea of something more 3D and really enjoyed it. Thought it was fun and Austin-y!

 

 

 

I added some colors and thought it was looking pretty fun! One with and without squiggles.

Another roughly sketched concept.

Some more concepts! In context?

 

 

 

Spectrogram colors as inspiration!

RUS412K Animation Assets

This week I worked on different assets for the RUS412K animation, such as the open and closed signs, and several boxes. I definitely became more comfortable with Adobe Animate through these assignments, and I now can work at a much faster phase in Animate than before.

Fixing TBH Issues

Kudos to the people in charge of TBH because after we delivered our final version of the project they found like a hundred more issues for us to fix. Last week Ruben, Suloni, Tate and I spent our time fixing all of them to deliver one final super-polished version of the site. I even had to add an extra 6 hours this week so we could finish. I’m going to talk about the 3 issues that took me the longest to fix.

First of all is Trans Pecos Mountains and Basins. (https://dev.texasbeyondhistory.net/trans-p/prehistory/index.html) This one managed to elude Ruben’s Flash seeking algorithm and was still not made in Canvasser so I had to make it from scratch. I decided to add the labels so that it would be more clear what each button pointed to. This was the final version.

Second is the Sandals interactive. (https://dev.texasbeyondhistory.net/granado/sandals/index.html) This one was made but there was a tiny issue. When Dr. Dirt hops around the screen in the intro he would fly across the screen for a tiny second. This one was SO HARD to fix. It took me over an hour of going through each frame to find the specific moment where the error happened. I finally made Dr. Dirt hop and jump the regular way.

Third was Time Travel. (https://dev.texasbeyondhistory.net/kincaid/kids/timetravel.html) This one was remade but all the sounds were not working. Also we had modified the first frame and they wanted us to bring it back. We did but we made it way better. Tate drew a nice background for it and we added all the sounds to make it nice.

 

Update on ARH301

I thought I should explain a little bit about the set-up; the picture-in-picture lectures look like this (the video lecture is embedded in the Powerpoint):

So far the challenge has been adjusting the display colors so that there is a blue tint, but not one so saturated that it is overpowering. The screen itself has a tint that we are correcting for. I’m working on adjusting the individual brightness/contrast of each panel because I realized that some of the pictures were more prominent than others and I wanted to equalize them. Here are some variations that I’ve been working on with different overlays, color adjustments, and vibrance/saturation levels.

 

Update on RUS Illustration

Here are some pictures of my progress on the Russian illustration. I’m not really happy with my line work, the thickness of some lines is off, and I’m not finished with the coloring yet. I’m going to draw a camera for Grigorij to hold, and some flowers for Polina and Oleg to hold.

 

The past week, I worked on several different things. Because I didn’t have any RUS412 assignments, my focus was on other things like NWAV 49, TBH, Cascade, photo ID’s, and even a surprise project for Samantha, who is leaving us!

NWAV 49 project has been really fun, because there aren’t strict rules and I can be my creative self. One challenge is that I still am not entirely sure what NWAV is… but I just decided to go with the flow! I changed the colors from nude colors to more pop-culture/ bright colors to grab the viewer’s attention. These are the logos and banners (not sure if finished, though):

 

For TBH, I had to replace some of the homepage images – I either drew them or found them on the Noun Project. I also got rid of the black boxes in the “Teachers” section for the little icons. I also changed the SAA logo at the bottom, as per Ruben’s request.

I also worked on some cascade redocumentation – meeting with our client tomorrow!! I’m kind of nervous because I feel like I still don’t know cascade 100%;

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15CvPausJonWoLDDVbOlMAT0wo7CKPJBeEH042ZlPU98/edit#

For photo ID’s, I’ve been assigning them to the new STA’s, but since I didn’t really have much to do, I decided to take on all the new photo id request. Here are a few of them:

And last but not least, Samantha’s farewell card:

I worked on another object creation assignment; this time for the “cool uber car”. I mainly traced over the reference image and made the car black:

I also was assigned COLA IDs. This time, two of the images weren’t found. I emailed the senders but they never got back to me so I’ve only been able to complete one.

I’ve also been working on my Russian illustration. I’ve made a bit of progress through coloring, so I’m almost done. The colors are a bit muted compared to the other illustrations but hopefully it will just emphasize the dream bubble of the banya.

I also finished all of the scans for Dr. Miller and worked a bit on Canvas re-documentation when I had the time.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2018/07/24/23780-2/