KHS Digital Media Arts

This is a local commercial for a Sleep Center in Odessa Texas. I guess they made it seriously, but it sure cracks me up that they were thinking this would look believable. These guys obviously don't have the kind of technology and opportunities that we do to make CGI such as this, but really? This is just terrible. Credit to those guys, though, this commercial went on TV.

(posted for jmiguel)

Nokia has made some pretty cool things to demonstrate their camera phone's abilites. The supposedly world's largest stop motion, also by Nokia, can be found here .

The Colombian artist  Federico Uribe  is very known for his love and need to express pop art by using materials that we use in our every day life. These sculptures are as said only made by using a bunch of color pencils, and small plastic fasteners to keep it all in place. Even though the material is something as simple as a pencils, he still pulls it off and makes it look even more awesome than expected. Other sculptures that are as unique as the pencil ones are  these realistic 3D paper sculptures . (Posted for Jordan)

Here, you have skateboarder Adam Taylor showing off his GoPro. Check out that ramp. so cool!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2kDpgR/www.layersmagazine.com/photoshop-cs4-a-picture-worth-a-thousand-words.html By Dave Cross in Photoshop,Tutorial Tuesday September 1, 2009

(Posted for Paul)

Here are a few great new designs that DMA I students recently created for their portfolio covers.

A speed sculp made in a 3D program called ZBrush

by Zoe Rodriguez DMA I students recently completed some great digital paintings after learning to use the new Mixer Brush and the Bristle Brushes added in Photoshop CS5.  Check out more student work in our Picasa Album . By Kelly Madison By Hunter Doebereiner   By Kevin Butler By Grant Brauer  

" BUKET " is the tag name of Cyrus Yazdani (born July 17, 1983), who is a graffiti artist known for his daredevil-like approach. Buket, who was always well known in the graffiti world, rose to fame on a mainstream scale through a YouTube video which showed him tagging above a Los Angeles freeway in broad daylight. In this video you see him spray painting a car.

This video will show you step by step how to change the season in an image using this photo of a tree in the springtime. You can also use this technique to change the color or appearance of any image.  (Posted for Kelly)

This a painting made in Photoshop by a guy who goes by the name " The Concept Painter " on Youtube. He does lots of Photoshop speed painting videos and also air brush videos. This particular painting took him 3.5 hours to complete and was made using a drawing tablet similar to the ones we use in our class.

Julian Beever is an artist who began doing sidewalk drawings that are very cool. He does a great job of bringing them to life.  (Posted for Matt)

This is a really cool tutorial here that shows you how to create light effects. It takes only 1-2 hours to make a very realistic look. You can go with a sunset, or any other crazy looking lighting effects. You can add realistic things or spirals and other cool stuff.  (Posted for Emily)

The Slow Mo Guys are two guys who use a slow motion HD camera to shoot many different slow mo videos. In this video they capture two water droplets colliding. They have many other videos involving 6 ft water balloons and punches in the stomach. See more at their Youtube channel .  (Posted for Hunter)

Wacom recently announced this awesome new tool to allow pen and paper sketches to instantly be converted to vector or digital drawings, complete with layers and everything. It will be interesting to see how well it actually works, and to see if it catches on. If it works well it seems like it will be really useful for people in any creative field. Here is the link for the official website for more information.

This video shows Sand Art by Miss Simonova. It shows sand being transformed into art on an illuminated table. In this video, she is showing how people were affected in the German invasion in World War II. This video is from a talent show in Ukraine where Miss Simonova won $75,000. The video starts with a sky showing happy scenes but they quickly turn to the tragic events surrounding World War II. In the  last scene a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside with his hands pressed against the glass saying goodbye. This art is really cool because its like no other art and it shows the skill it takes to do it.  (Posted for Kevin B.)

Kristofer Strom is an artist who uses animation to further express music and ideas. He's gotten work making music videos and commercials. (Posted for Nick C.)