STA Work Blog

I have been continually working on the RUS412K projects, for both the animation and the illustrations. Before I took a week off of work, I finished the RUS412K homepage banner.

My initial placement of just the RUS412 Illustration characters:

And since RUS412K animation is also a huge part of the class, we have decided to incorporate those characters into the scene:

I also started working on another watercolor background for Tate and am in the progress of finishing it up – just need to make some adjustments with the colors and fill in the birch trees!

Initial sketch – I had to make separate layers for almost every single distinct features/ items (?):

And started coloring it:

This past week I’ve been helping with the computer support pages which are being updated in Canvasser; we’re working on 4 instructional interactives covering different topics/issues. Last week we finished copying over the slides, so now we’re just going through the interactives to find and correct mistakes, broken links, etc. Right now I’m working on cropping and reuploading some pictures.

Link: https://dev.laits.utexas.edu/dev_garzarj/laitslearn/index.html

Other than that I’ve been doing COLA IDs, and some RUS assignments (creating objects).

 

Week of 8/27

I haven’t been here in a while! Over my break, I went on a trip to Iceland, but I still managed to do some RUS412 animations. You may recognize the original clip from Tate! I just added the waitress walking outside, waving to the garbage collector, and then having a bird snatch her bag of cookies.

The process was a lot more complicated than it looks, because the waitress had no walk cycle holding the cookies and the bird was too big relative to the waitress and the cookies. There was a lot of tweaking and re-tweaking of the timing, the proportions, and the composition (where the waitress would stand relative to the waiter, how her arms would line up with his while waving, how her blinks would match up, etc.) If you look at the file, there are a TON of symbols and I had to sort through them while working as well, which took some extra time.

I also worked on an edit for RUS412 after I came back, adding labels to all the grocery items on the shelves. Here’s a comparison of the before vs. after:

Now the grocery aisle has a lot more life in it!

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Finally I worked on the TID website trying to find out what kind of graphic style would fit the front page. I spent most of the time just figuring out how to link the text box html to the simple css editor on WordPress, but the site is just weird and will only let me directly link an image but not the text. So I had to google how to use inline css to type the style code directly into the text box.

At least now that I know how to change the font size/color, I can mess around with it!

This past week I worked quite a bit on Russian. Mainly watercolor backgrounds, but also had the chance to experiment with animating a swim cycle for the adventurer character.

Then I also worked on an illustration edit where I had to color in the people and orchestra:

I also started working on the UT Psyche CE logo; we wanted to be sleek, bright, and professional (using the UT branding secondary palette):

I also spend a lot of time working on canvasser with Rodrigo and Bridget to update all the older slides to the newer format.

 

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2018/08/27/24297-2/

First Week of Work

 

Today was my first Monday on the job! I’m starting to get a hang of navigating through BaseCamp to see what needs to be worked on during a shift. Today I worked on my Portrait Caricature assignment and here is what I ended up with!Illustration has always been a challenge for me because I never really had any experience in drawing before I started studying design a couple of years ago. Naturally, I was a little nervous going into this assignment but overall I’m pretty happy with what I ended up with. I’m excited to progress my drawing and illustration skills while working as an STA and am looking forward to the week ahead!

I came in early today to work on my STA blog banner and finished it!

 

It’s my blog banner!

 

Today, I was planning on finishing up my caricature, but I lost some of my work 🙁 I’m going to try to make up for lost time and try to wrap up the caricature assignment tomorrow. I was also looking through and reading the instructions on the PhotoID process and familiarizing myself with it. I want to dive into the Photo ID process and get some hands on experience before the end of the week.  There’s a lot of stuff to look forward to tomorrow and this coming week!