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Intro Videos

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Intro Videos

 

 MUS 307 – Jazz Appreciation with Jeff Hellmer

 

 

Took some inspiration from Cowboy Bebop

Four Panels on Each

Slats in each

CC 303 – Introduction to Classical Mythology with Steve Lundy

2 PSY333DBaby (Valerie)
Project Manager – Ashley Schenker
STA Design Lead – Valerie Lopez
STA Illustrator- Anna Xu
Professor Amy Booth had a storyboard request for her intro video showing a child growing up from a baby growing to a 10 year old. Since Suloni knew I had illustration and RTF skills she and Ashley asked me to illustrate and animate this video introduction. Suloni also asked me to bring Anna, another of my fellow STA’s, onto this project to help me create the illustrations used for the video. The goal was to help other STA’s get more experience on working in projects with multiple illustrators and learning how to adapt to art styles other than their own. We used adobe illustrator to create the drawings and I used flash and after effects to put the video together. The final music was added by the audio group. I am currently aspiring to be an animator and this is definitely a project I can put in my demo reel and the experience is something I can put in my resume.

Training & Leadership

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Training & Leadership

Growth of Video STAs

 

 

Valerie : Russian Online

Professor: Heather Rice

Project Manager: Mike Heidenreich

Design STAs: Valerie , Lauren, Bethany, Rebecca, Anna

CUTOUT STYLE:

 

 

GIF

 

How audio has changed since I’ve been here:

Preamps

       

Sound Boards

    

Routing

     

Recording

    

 

Audio Clip from “Why is the United States Among the Last Countries to Have a Woman as Head of State?”

 

Audio Control Room for Jazz

Setting Up to Record British Studies

 

 

LAT 506

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LAT 506

Question? Well… Question Banks

quid agis

Provide the base of the following nouns (do not add a hyphen after the base):

 

amīcus, amīcī, m. [amīc]

puer, puerī, m. [puer]

dōnum, dōnī, n. [dōn]

cōnsilium, cōnsiliī, n. [cōnsili]

numerus, numerī, m. [numer]

 

Don’t forget to add macrons! You can copy and paste letters with macrons into the word with these letters: ā ē ī ō ū

 

 

quod erat faciendum

GIF

quod erat demonstrandum

 

 

quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur

Drafting

Approved Drafts for Initial Characters

 

Additional Characters

New Character Process

GIF

Full Scenes

Jazz

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Jazz Online

This is image is the first slide in a slide show, hover over the image for controlls.

 

 

 

Introduction to Classical Mythology

Sample of the guitar without any processing

Introduction to Classical Mythology with Steve Lundy

Jazz Appreciation with Jeff Hellmer

Reused Video Material

Audio First Chair:

Audio Second Chair:

  • Keeps time
  • Mics professor and TA
  • Communicates with technical director, project manager, graphics director, and camera operators

 Live Musical Performances!

  • Usual class: Interactive videos, Audio clips, and live music
    • 6 cameras, 5 camera operators, 2 different studios for shooting
  • This day we had:
    • 4 cameras,  1 studio for shooting
    • 1 mobile camera,  2 cameras on tripods, 1 static camera
    • Cameras on tripods would zoom in and out, pan across, tilt up and down to vary the subjects and shots since we had fewer cameras than subjects.
      • Mobile camera picks up the shots the cameras on the tripods couldn’t get.           

 

 

 

e-Lucy

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e-Lucy

History of Design:

Previous Website:

Photoshop -> Webpage:

CSS changes:

Modals Compare Anatomy

Mobile Responsive Media Queries

Interactive Compare Anatomy:

New Website:

 

Background:

Found in Ethiopia in 1974, Lucy is one of the oldest and most complete fossils with over 40% of her skeleton found,  and shares characteristics with both chimpanzees and humans. Originally thought to have died from natural causes, Dr. John Kappelman and his team discovered evidence to support that she died by injuries consistent with that of a fall from a great height, maybe even from a tree.

Illustration

  • First brought by Suloni to help Professor Kappelman visualize his discovery.
  • New discovery so had to be kept quiet until accepted by Scientific Journal Nature.
  • First request was to illustrate Lucy falling.
  • Challenge in drawing her anatomy since shared characteristics with human and chimpanzees.
  • Lots of reference material used.
  • Request evolved as Professor Kappelman concluded more information.
  • Needed more illustrations!
  • 1 to 3 to 5 illustrations.

The injuries shown across her body all suggested  being the result of falling off from a high distance. The trees at the time would be 40 or more feet tall,  which match the description of the height needed for what resulted in the extent of her injuries. This discovery would provide more evidence to suggest that not only did Lucy walk upright like humans,  but she did in fact spend some time in trees.

The Resulting Illustration:

  • Professor Kappelman added to illustration to create the final illustration.
  • Also used for animation!

These were made to be complimentary material to Professor Kappelman’s paper and other material that was sent in to be reviewed by Nature Journal.

 

Journalism

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Journalism

This project allows for future projects like this: Creating video/modules for different departments/courses that can improve the student’s learning experience