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					<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span><span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Estimated reading time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes. </span></span>For Ada Lovelace Day 2025, Jackie, Magda and Stewart created the 'Interactive Women in STEM tour' game for everyone to play.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span><span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Estimated reading time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes. </span></span>For Ada Lovelace Day 2025 I created a colouring-in illustration of Moira Dunbar (1918-1999), the pioneering Scottish-Canadian glaciologist and Arctic sea-ice researcher.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 5</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>The Interactive Content team used ThingLink to create interactive learning materials for two Careers Services projects: ‘Skills For Success Framework’ and ‘Riding the Wave’. They chose ThingLink for its ability to add interactivity to graphics and its ease of embedding into EdWeb. The team collaborated with the Graphics Design service to create engaging and accessible content using ThingLink’s scenes and tags features.]]></description>
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 18</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>In this blog post, I write about what digital accessibility is, how we can make digital content more accessible, and why all of this matters in the first place. Also, this is a sort of diary of my first month as a Digital Accessibility Intern: what I have been up to, and my thoughts about various activities I have undertaken.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 4</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>In 2023, I started work on migrating three Drupal 7 websites over to Drupal 10. All three sites used a custom sub-theme based on Bootstrap 3. Each site had its own purpose, but they needed to look and feel similar. The main reason for the migration was that Drupal 7 was reaching its end-of-life.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 9</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>In my second month as the DLAM Digital Accessibility Intern, I've been contributing key accessibility and UX improvements to an open-source sheet music application. This blog describes how a GenAI workflow helped fast-track my understanding of Python coding, and allowed me to make impactful changes to an open-source project, through a process I call "Educated Prompting".]]></description>
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 18</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>In this blog post, I write about what digital accessibility is, how we can make digital content more accessible, and why all of this matters in the first place. Also, this is a sort of diary of my first month as a Digital Accessibility Intern: what I have been up to, and my thoughts about various activities I have undertaken.]]></description>
		
		
		
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Climate Solutions MOOC Animation (using AE 3D Cameras)

Hi all, I’ve been working mainly on two projects over the past few months, both of which have just crossed the finish line: Two films for Edinburgh and Belfast’s 20mph project and a special animation for the new Climate Solutions MOOC. For this post, I’ll focus on the Climate Solutions video.

Do Nation ‘How to Make a Pledge’ video

Encourage learners to join Do Nation

The brief required a video to play at the end of the MOOC to encourage learners to join Do Nation, a website that encourages people to donate by doing, as opposed to giving cash. People running a marathon or climbing a mountain can raise sponsorship by asking their friends and family to pledge small actions like eating less red meat or doing their washing at a lower temperature. The website then helps to calculate the resulting carbon savings.

screenshot of animation - a closeup of a woman's facescreenshot of animation - animatd text reading 'Do Nation: How to Make a Pledgescreenshot of animation - planets moving through space

Working with 3D Cameras

I was provided with a script, some rough visual suggestions with a budget and lead-time that provided me with the ability to flex my creative skills beyond the typical sort of animation work that comes out of Interactive Content (IC). I chose to create a hand-drawn vector animation edited with After Effects which utilises the software’s 3D cameras.

AE’s 3D camera is a ridiculously complicated application, and nobody bar myself and a few others use the software in a professional capacity in LTW, so I’ll skim over details but in essence, it’s a tool which can take your 2D illustrations and place them within a faux-3D environment. Each layer is placed in front of the other on a X-Y-Z axis. The animator chooses how far apart they sit, how big each layer is in relation to the other (providing a sense of perspective) and where the camera should be positioned, where it should move and what it should focus on.

screenshot of animation - closeup of buildings screenshot of animation - closeup of buildings revealing detailscreenshot of animation - closeup of a calendar situated on a wall

Devil is in the detail

I used a lot of zoom shots so this meant I had to create very detailed drawings within IND, AI and PS. I like artwork and animations that reflect their budget to the trained eye, so I didn’t skimp on detail. This also meant I could repurpose parts of one scene and use them in another and possibly use them in future animations too. Approx. 70% of the time on this project was spent creating new illustrations.

I created a single character to carry the narrative. Next, I designed six detailed scenes: outer space, street, park, kitchen, phone and laptop. Each scene contained detailed components such as crater holes, buildings, dripping taps, lamp posts, trees, signage, smartphones, curtains and a-blink-and-you’ll-miss-it spaceship that whizzes past planet earth, complete with a little alien at the steering wheel. The scenes are then re-built in AE as 3D scenes and the process of camera work begins. That’s the long and laborious part I won’t bore you with.

Finally, I gave the artwork a slight retro cartoon vibe with weathered colours, font, old school film grain and a nice public domain music track to keep the whole thing moving along at a quick pace. I also used scans of textured paper to add visual interest and emphasise the environmental aims of Do Nation. You’ll also spot scene one transitions from planet earth into a recycling logo.

image of character design - the character is drawn at 3 different anglesimage of character design - closeup of female character's face and torso design

Short, snappy, fun animation

The end result is a short, snappy, fun animation, worthy of a University platform which doesn’t cut corners in production and was delivered within its budget and before deadline. It’s also packed with details that people can spot on repeat viewings. I think it’s a nice way to sign off the MOOC and I hope it inspires people to try Do Nation.

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Credit where credit is due

There are of course, more people involved in the creation of this work than you might think or are typically acknowledged when media of this type is shared publicly, so credit where credit is due! Huge thanks to Galina Toteva and the School of Geosciences for the opportunity, Calum MacPhail for recording the voice-over, Lizzy Garner-Foy for editing the script with Galina and also for Kirsten Leggatt for delivering an excellent voice-over. You can check out the MOOC and visit Do Nation here.

Climate Solutions MOOC

Do Nation pledge platform

closeup image of female character's eyes, revealing the detail within the illustration

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