KHS Digital Media Arts

                 Forza Horizon 4 is a beautifully designed and made game that has 754 cars that are customizable, modifiable, and can be designed to fit your liking. The series 33 update comes with 6 more vehicles including a REASR Tachyon which is a very rare electric supercar that can hit speed of up to 240 mph. New season and new cars are all exciting, but with new bug fixes and highly demanded spec corrections, this will make the game so much more fun. If you have never played this game I would definitely recommend it.

Since this is my last blog post ever of high school DMA I thought I would leave you with an inspirational quote from Walt Disney.  "The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing." Though I can tell you that I don't always take that advice I can say it has helped me all through high school in all aspects of my life. The only way something can get done is if you start in and quit talking about starting it.  Well..goodbye DMA. I will miss you.  And to all incoming DMA students. I hope you find your spark and earn your earth pass. HAHA I think I'm so funny.  But truthfully, I hope you find your passion and stick with it.  See you on the other side.  Soul

      The arguable G.O.A.T J Cole just dropped his newest album the Off-Season. This album is easily the best album I've heard this year, it is an absolute work of art. From the features to the production to Coles unmatched lyricism this project hands down is the best thing to come out in the last few months. It perfectly wraps up Coles discography(even though there may be more music to come) by pairing the "Off-Season" with Coles first tape "The warm up".

  This is my last blog post of Junior year, and DMA 1. I have enjoyed this class so much and my favorite project has been digital painting. I love to create digital paintings because they aren't challenging and it's pretty mindless. Next year I have signed up for APDMA and I'm very excited to continue to create more digital pieces and work. If I could give advice to anyone who's taking DMA 1 next year I would say, put effort into every project. This might sound generic, but even projects that you aren't particularly excited to create should be done with effort. At the end of the year when you create a portfolio, you want something that accurately reflects your skill level and showcases all of the work you put in through the year. 

    This year we will see the release of a very anticipated Netflix original series, Outer Banks. This show aired in early spring of 2020, right before COVID took over. Many people binged this show and the reviews were great. I personally loved this show and if you haven't watched the first season I would HIGHLY recommend it. It was about a group of teens that lived a hard life in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. They are very tight and know each other very well. They are faced with challenges when another group, the rich kids, which they called the Kooks,  try and mess with them because they don't like them. Its a thrill, and a love story and if you haven't watched it, YOU SHOULD!!

  Mario Golf  Super Rush is an upcoming golf video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch console. It is the seventh installment in the Mario Golf series following Mario Golf: World Tour in 2014 and is part of the larger Mario franchise. The game consists of playing golf with friends with an extra twist added to it. It is a great game to play and will be realizing, June 25, 2021.

 @oxy.to.cin AKA Rachel Bush is an amazing photographer from who I get so much inspiration from. Her photography style has developed a lot over the years, but right now her "theme" is centered around being "light" and "airy" in my opinion. I love it so much and I know she's going to do big things in life! I pasted some of her photos below.

  Even if you've never played Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, there is a good chance you have either heard of it or seen videos of people opening up cases for different skins. While a lot of the skins are really bland and actually would give you a competitive advantage, I really like the flashy skins in the game. The designs are just really cool looking and I can't think of any other way to describe them besides that. Valve is still adding new skins to the game, with them releasing the new Snakebite Case which includes even more beautiful skins. Regardless of if you play the game or not I highly recommend just googling some of the many amazing skins in CS:GO.

  Yaiza Perez is an artist I came across on tik tok. She is incredibly talented with makeup. She does different styles and sometimes just uses her chest as a canvas. She makes videos on tik tok during the process of her work. Her tik tok tag is @yaizaperezs and her Instagram tag is @yaizaperez

 Destiny 2's latest season, Season Of the Splicer is coming on Tuesday and it looks absolutely amazing from both an art directive and a story telling part.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crKGHG3stbY 

 She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is an animated show on Netflix. It has 5 seasons and it's a spin-off of the original She-Ra show from the '80s. It's pretty cool to see how Dreamworks takes a beloved animated show and puts a new spin on it for kids today. If you haven't seen it already I definitely recommend it! 

           Friday Night Funkin (FNF) is a rhythm game created by the workers of Newgrounds. As the main character whose name is Boyfriend, you battle other rappers in rhythm battles to win your girlfriend from them. The game so far has 7 weeks to play in story mode. The plan for Newgrounds is to have 20 weeks added to the game. I have had a fun time playing this game on my computer and I am working on modding the game to make it cooler. Please try out this fun rhythm game. It is free to download.

 Well DMA it's been real. For 3 years I took this class and it's amazing how fast it flew by. I have made so many memories and met so many people who I might not have known otherwise. This class has been a truly amazing experience and I'm sad that it's ending, Next year I'll be going to the Cleveland Institute of Art and majoring in Animation. Check out my website: https://natalierussell0104.wixsite.com/portfolio  This is Sarah, Kaylee, and my 2021 BPA project! It was by far my favorite project and we place top 20 at nationals! Well, I guess that all for now/ever!  - Natalie <3

       This class ended up changing my entire future and helped me make so many friends and memories. I am so grateful for all the time I got to spend with everyone, and so grateful for Mrs. Shield's for being my hype man. Digital media is so fun and and I totally recommend getting into it. Loved this class. Thank you DMA.

 As many of you may have heard, a couple months ago the stock market got flipped upside down. The well-known tech company and video game retailer, Gamestop, had one of the greatest short squeezes of all time! GME started the year with a share costing you right around $15, not terrible for large investments. Gamestop then January 25th got all the way to the upper end of $400. Reddit user "DFV" came across findings of firms betting against GME, he then posted on subreddit WallStreetBets, to buy tons of stock in GME thus driving up the share price. Well-known big corporate brokerage firms lost millions because of these young users. GME has since gone down and had days since that have been volatile along with their CEO stepping down leading to another day of a smaller short squeeze. In a year of the reddest day in Stock Market history, Gamestop saw success. 

 Animal Restaurant is a cute indie game where you run a restaurant for animals. It has a really cute art style, and the background and characters match well together. It's downloadable from the app store if ya wanna check it out.

Taylor Swift has always been one of my favorite artists. As many of you know, she has recently released a new album that features newly recorded versions of her old songs. This is the cover for "Fearless." I love this photo and that's what inspired me to blog about this. The angle and filter perfectly match the vibe of her songs.  

    Within the recent few weeks, I've been playing a lot of videogames. I decided to start doing some Steam wishlist cleaning since some games have been on there for well over a year or two, and Hylics 2 was the I started with. I beat this game within the weekend, took me roughly 12 hours. For 15 bucks that's a pretty great runtime given that it's not only an indie game but was made by a solo dev.  Where the game strides is its aesthetics. The visuals are filled with overlayed bright colors and patterns, with all of the 3D models being stylized after something like claymation and then pixelated. Contrary to a lot of adrenaline fueled RPG music, Hylics 2's soundtrack is very relaxed, adding to the psychadelic nature of the game.  Where the game falters a bit (depending on perspective) is the combat. While the game is still fun, the battles in Hylics 2 often span more than a few minutes in each fight. In the RPG genre, many players will often choose to conserve Magic f...

      Well since I'm a senior, then this is probably going to be my last blog post. Next year, I am going to do the Digital Design program at the Warren County Career Center for college credit, so I'm still going to do some DMA stuff after graduation. It's been very cool to be making cool stuff here and I'll miss you guys and I know your going to miss me and my dog Max.