KHS Digital Media Arts

this is a cute little animation that mixes with real life. It's similar to what we are doing right now with our imaginary friends

Saw these sweet new Jaguars uniforms while browsing the web.

Cable cars work sort of like the tow rope at the ski slope. The cable is always moving and the car grips it when it wants to go.

Good morning from San Francisco!

GTA V won't be coming out for a little while, but we can still admire the sweet artwork that Rockstar has released.

This video uses dramatic camera angles and sweet effects to make the car come alive and keeps you entertained.

Syrsa definitely deserves more attention. His music (and a lot of his art) is just amazing.

I thought this was relevant to what we're doing in class. Here's an example of an animation that takes advantage of looping, and somehow manages to remain creative, and entertaining. . .

This guy is incredible

I've always wanted to do cool things in photoshop that would be otherwise impossible (assuming science doesn't improve to this level) and make them works of art

Since we have to post on this blog here is a tutorial on "posting on blogs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7ihkpCJtHbE

We have really exciting news!  Kings High School made it to the Top 50 in the Vans Custom Culture Competition for the second year in a row.   Seniors Zoe Rodriguez, Kelly Madison, and Emily Douglass entered the competition this year.  They designed and created a pair of custom Vans for each of the 4 categories, Art, Music, Action Sports, and Local Flavor.  Once they completed the shoes, they photographed their shoes 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.   So now the judging begins today.  Kings has to beat the 9 other schools in the NORTHEAST region and we will be in the TOP 5 schools which  will travel to NYC for the exclusive final event in May. The grand prize winner will receive $50,000 and each runner up will receive $4,000 for their school's art progr...

Congratulations to juniors Anna Ventre and Kailynn Clark, who have both recently be selected as one of the Top 20 Finalists for the 2013 Congressional Art competition. They were selected out of over 135 pieces from high schools in Hamilton and Warren Counties.   Now the voting goes to the public.   These artists need your help.  Click here to vote for their work at the bottom of the page. (#15 & #16)   Voting is open until April 26th. The winners will be announced at a ceremony at Cincinnati Museum Center in May. First Place:   Artwork will hang in the U.S. Capitol, along with pieces from students around the country, for one year and invitation to the  National Winners’ Reception in Washington D.C. for the First Place winning artist and one guest. Second Place:   Artwork will hang in Congressman Chabot’s D.C. office for one year. Third Place:   Artwork will hang in Congressman Chabot’s Cincinnati office for one...

This summer Cincinnati is starting up the 513 City Flea again. Its held once a month in Washington Square Park which is by Music Hall. I got the chance to go once last summer and its pretty fun and alot of local artists/ food people/ record stores and such have booths there to learn more about it click  here

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According to the description took 10 hours. That's some pretty intense commitment

Just to go along with the main focus as of late in DMA I, this is a series of short animations

Animation is definitely challenging and takes a certain skill set. Walt Disney is the genius who brought it into the new age. Here is his famous Steam Boat Willie from 1928. Still the best of all-time.

Thought this was a cool picture of a very interesting dorm. It is at   university in  Orestad, a newer district in Copenhagen, Denmark. It shows that design can be in many different beautiful forms, including architecture. 

Click Here to look at the chance of a life time! imagine a 3 or 4 hour exposure time of a night sky and multiple shooting stars going across the frame!

   At first glance this picture looks like nothing more than a pixelated photo but closer inspection reveals the image is actually created using thousands of wax crayons by artist, Christian Faur. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342262/Artist-Christian-Faur-uses-wax-crayons-create-new-kind-painting.html#ixzz2R9ZR6Qdq

I posted this because it relates to our walk cycle that we're doing in flash.

Master Chief's eyes from Halo 4 only visible if you beat it on legendary

Recently found a new Yu-Gi-Oh! card, never before seen when we were little kids. Click the link below to view this amazing find. ThankYouBasedGod http://mlkshk.com/r/Q72W

This is a very cool looking graphic design that I found. It's also Star Wars which is awesome

Freddie Wong and Brandon Laatsch are "freddiew," one of the the greatest channels on YouTube. They're well-known for their cinematic short films and animations. These guys are the ones responsible for First Person Mario and the sequel, Endgame. Any chance they get, they post behind the scenes videos on their second channel "freddiew2" and they've always fascinated me because of how intricate their projects are; these two are the ones responsible for getting me inspired to pursue a filmmaking career. Anywho, this is the behind the scenes video for the sequel to First Person Mario, this is the first video, First Person Mario , and here's the sequel,  First Person Mario: Endgame

Several cartoon-like animations these days really emphasize on the illusion of life; the exaggeration of movement to make an object look more alive. This 3D animation reel from a Looney Toons short shows how animators go about animating and rendering 3D characters, environments and the exaggeration of movements.

Sam Parrett showed me this really cool Flash Animation a few years ago. Check it out, it's pretty epic!

solid commercial by dr. pepper. good character development =D

Interesting way to make a simple app game in to an awesome video! 

If you have ever seen the video END OF ZE WORLD you should go check it out because it was made in flash, just like our animations

I know i have posted about Banksy before but he has created a new serious of works all about irony. I encourage you to checkout some of his new works.

A new style for girls' hair is ombre-ing. It's where you have two or more different colors of hair and a fun way to make your hair is adding colors. I think this is really cool if you can pull it off!

As the seniors begin thinking about their time based piece I thought it might be helpful to get ideas. This is a news video CNN did about YouTube and the Guggenheim's compilation of the 25 "most creative" videos ever. Only a few are included in the video but the rest are HERE .

http://artistsinspireartists.com/ Looking to be inspired? Find amazing works of art on Artists Inspire Artists. You gotta find it some where!

Here are Kings 2013 Van Custom Culture shoe designs.  Kings entered the competition and shoes were sent to us in March.  Three AP DMA Seniors, Zoe Rodriguez, Kelly Madison, and Emily Douglass, all started created these designs for each of the 4 categories, Art, Music, Action Sports, and Local Flavor.  Wish them luck as they hope to be selected as one of the final top 50.

Very cool sculptures made of recycled redbull cans. Nothing is better than some redbull and art!

It may not be Easter anymore but its always time for art. With eggs.

This is a really cool technique I came across. It uses trees, etc to hide a human face. It kind of reminds me of the double exposure technique we use in class. Click  here  to see more.

I came across this very nice HDR photo

I chose this because we did one as well but i realized mine would be a lot better if I had a center of interest to look on like this one.

Getting excited for our time-based pieces! A cool and fun technique to try out. This guy is one of the best I've seen! Check him out! vimeo.com/terjes A still from his video "the mountain"

"The aurora borealis seen over a beach in Iceland. Larry Gerbrandt braved temperatures below –20C and winds up to 40mph to take this picture of the northern lights over southern Iceland last month" Straight up literally I'm not going to lie, this is like, so geek omg

33 days 15 hours 50 minutes 42 seconds until ORLANDO!!! Had so much fun last year in Chicago  CAN'T WAIT!!!

Arguably one of the coolest water photos I've ever seen. Check out the work of andy_1605 at this link ANDY_1605 on Flickr

This is a crazy looking picture that was edited in Photoshop.

While looking for cool art I found this website of art made all up of  recycled toys !

You should definitely check out the latest game based on Naruto Shippuden (AKA the greatest anime ever). It includes new animation and the largest character roster to date.