Week XLV

Weird week – I get back from vacation, and a couple days later I’m knocked out with a 100 degree fever!

I did a lot of little stuff this week, so I’ll cover 2 things quick.

Course Graphics – ADV 319 Psychology of Advertising

More like course graphic!

They just requested one custom button for the home page. I may have copied Hess Trucks slightly.

Photo IDs

Suloni and I talked this week about reorganizing the input workflow for photo IDs. The process we wrote out:

1. Client uses Online Photo ID Submission Form to submit a digital photo
2. 3 Managers receive ID submission in Outlook email
3. 1 Manager copies the “Print” version of the Outlook email to paste into the appropriate BCto-do comment in the appropriate group FACULTY or  STAFF or GSTD
4. Manager, adds data from BCcomment, to our SpreadSheet
5. Manager rocket-boosts each BCcomment with “SS” to denote which data is added to our SpreadSheet.
6. Manager: investigate each submission to see if it is indeed in Box
7. Manager: if photo not in Box, note in the SpreadSheet + add the e-mail contact. (graduate advisor is the e-mail contact, if grad student submission is not in box)
8. Manager: e-mail sender or advisor for new submission
9. Manager: Create and assign 1 BCto-do under “STA Assignments” group

The thing I’m most proud of, a new spreadsheet! Yay! At Suloni’s suggestion, simplified from my older experiment for more streamlined intake. Compare:

I began an excursion into animation this week! I was assigned to animate the stingers and intro for GOV 312L. Opening After Effects and not knowing what any of the buttons do was certainly a learning experience, but I managed to animate the custom stinger from scratch. Here it is:

The intro was even more daunting, as it had to be longer and more interesting than text appearing in five seconds. I ended up using Premiere Pro, a more familiar video software to me, to animate the intro. I’m really proud of how it turned out. Here it is:

In addition to the animations, I also finished out the course graphics for GOV 312L and worked some more on the French class. That’s it for this week!

 

This week, I worked on more course graphics. I kept making edits to GOV 310L, and I started on a new course, GOV 312L. The first government class is close to finished, which is exciting. The last remaining task is to animate the stingers. I tried my hand at After Effects this week. The learning curve is steep! I have to google how to do every little thing. I’m making some slow progress there. Here are the static stinger graphics:

I’m also really excited about the look for the newer government class on elections. Here’s one of the assets for that class:

In addition to these two classes, I also worked some more on the French class. That’s it for this week!

Week XLIV

Whew! A lot of little tasks this week.

Course Graphics – EEV Computational Biology

Still working on the stinger slides for this.

Maddy showed me how to access the actual depository we have of nice, high res UT photos, so I started with something sciencey.

The client wanted something more UT-y, and later requested something similar in color to the backdrop. This is where I ended up after a few iterations.

Still awaiting feedback – and after today, I’ll be gone for a week, so I might need to share my editables before signing off.

Intermediate Training: Brochures

Finally had time to get back to this, and pretty much wrapped it up.

Some of the spacing could… be improved. I’ll wait for direct feedback on finishing touches.

Asset updates – COM301E & PSY352P

I’ve been doing a lot of these, and sometimes I don’t log them on my blog, but this week I learned a new skill from Maddy – using the timeline in Photoshop to export animated files!

I also updated another one that I did not learn any new skills from, nor can I take credit for how pretty it looks, but I might as well put it on my blog.

Intermediate Training: UI/UX with Figma

This is another very open-ended training I’m excited for. It teeeeechnically has a 3-4 hour suggested timeframe, but I’m really being a perfectionist and deep-diving because it involves a lot of new skills.

So far, I’m just in the stage of drafting a fictional florist website (as a “wireframe” drawing) and learning to use Figma.

I’m still working on the basic Figma tutorials. Honestly, they’re not well designed… limited interaction, a lot of text, and weirdly enough, a lot of the instructions are out of date? It references panels and tools with different names and placements, so it’s a lot more self-teaching than it’s meant to be. Oh well.