KHS Digital Media Arts

This is a really cool, real-life version of the eye dropper tool. It is still a concept design, but it would be awesome to actually have something that could mix custom colors instantly! http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-06/real-life-photoshop-tool-grabs-colors

I found this website of some weird optical illusions. Check it out.  http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/   (Posted for Hunter D.)

This is an awesome and hilarious animation of this bird named kiwi. He’s struggling to move this tree as a little tiny bird.  It was made by Dony Permedi. (Posted for Jordan D.)

I think this is an appropriate video to post at this time because it shows that animation doesn’t have to be really detailed to be good. This guy “Simon” does tons of black & white skits on YouTube about his cat doing things cats are known to do and gets millions of views on every one of them because is characters are so well put together and also pretty funny haha.  (Paul Rooney)

We have really exciting news!  Kings High School is in the Top 50 for the Vans Custom Culture Competition! Here is what happened.  Vans issued a call to enter their Custom Culture Competition.  The first 1000 art teachers to sign up would be sent 4 pairs of blank white Vans shoes in 4 styles to customize.  We entered and shoes were sent to us in March.  Four juniors in Digital Media Arts I class, Zoe Rodriguez, Kelly Madison, Kevin Butler, and Nadia Smith, all started working in Illustrator and Photoshop on potential designs in one of the 4 categories, Art, Music, Action Sports, and Local Flavor.  Then they transferred these designs onto the shoes and began painting. Once they completed the shoes, they photographed their shoes and used Photoshop to create their final images and uploaded them to be judged.  Then VANS had their judges narrow down the submissions from the original 1000 to the top 50, 10 from each of 5 regions.   WE FOUND OUT TODAY THAT KINGS IS IN THE TOP 50! 

This is a very interesting music video with really cool camera shots and effects. Song is Move Along by All American Rejects.

http://youtu.be/erUMp1WZ6l4 this is an odd video made in flash. I just thought it was pretty well made

Get a free trial of the Beta for Adobe Photoshop CS6 for a limited time at Adobe Labs .  The Photoshop CS6 beta will expire soon after the launch of Photoshop CS6 in spring of 2012.

This makes me happy.  You should watch it.

This is an interesting video for The Riot Song by Johnny Polygon. I thought the video's style was really creative and well-done.

This tutorial shows you tips on how to make a nice-looking, smooth animation.The programs used are Adobe Flash CS3 and Adobe Photoshop CS3.  (Posted for Kelly M.)

This is a cool animation that someone did in like 2002.  (Posted for Joeito)

http://www.flashartist.co.uk/ This is the portfolio of Laurent Arhuro, a flash artist who I found that has a lot of great, complicated animations. She also has some familiar clients like cartoon network. If you go through her recent work you can see how she has applied to work to other things than just your normal flash animation.  (Posted for Emily G.)

Here is a video game that has really cool visual effects (pay attention to the part where the cops come in).  (Posted for Joeito)

Microsoft surface is the future.  The world will be all computers one day and this one will be the supreme leader…until apple makes a better one.  (Posted for Matt N.)