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Why More Megapixels Doesn’t Always Mean a Better Camera

Posted in Education, Tutorials, tagged Art, AT&T, Blog, Camera, Cameras, Cinema 4D, Design, Discussions, documents, Education, google, graphic, Graphic Arts, High School, knights, Las Vegas, LG, LG and ATT, megapixels, mountain, Nevada, Nikon, Nikon D40, Nye, round, Round Mountain, Southern, Test, Tips, Tips and Shortcuts, Tutorials, wil, Wordpress on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Via Lifehacker. Check your sensor bro!
“These days everything’s cramming more megapixels into their cameras—like Sony Ericsson’s crazy 12-megapixel cameraphone, for example—but that doesn’t mean that the 12-megapixel cameraphone produces results close to what even a 10-megapixel DSLR could do.”

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Donnie Darko

Posted in 1, tagged Christian Slater, Discussions, Election, Graphic Arts, Gylllenhaul, Happy Madison, Heathers, Jake, Jarhead, mcdaniel, mountain, Movies, Nevada, round, Round Mountian, Schools, Suburbia, Teenage, The Day After Tomorrow, wil, Wordpress on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Before the ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ and ‘Jarhead’ there was ‘Donnie Darko’. Probably Jake Gyllenhaal’s most interesting performance. Some might say a cult classic. I put it right up there with ‘Heathers’, Christian Slater not Gyllenhaal, in terms of bending the psyche of teenage youth towards the fringe in modern suburbia. Check it out. It [...]

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Dieter Rams’ 10 rules for good design?

Posted in Education, Tutorials, tagged and, Art, Cinema 4D, Design, Discussions, Education, free, google, graphic, Graphic Arts, High School, knights, mcdaniel, mountain, Research, round, Round Mountain, Schools, Shortcuts, Tips, Tips and Shortcuts, Tutorials, wil, Wordpress on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I was reading gizmodo.com and their question concerning the Kindle 2 . They brought up ‘Dieter Rams’ 10 good rules for design’. Let’s take a look at the last one.
10. Good design is as little design as possible. This seems simple enough, yet is one of the most difficult aspects of design. Sure it is [...]

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What Device Do You Use To Listen To Your Music?

Posted in 3D, Education, tagged 3D, 3D and Cinema 4D, 4, 4d, and, App Store, Apple iPhone AT&amp;amp;T, Application Reviews, Art, Articles, AT&amp;amp;amp;amp;T, AT&amp;amp;T, AT&amp;T, Awards, BlackBerry and iPhone, BlackBerry Curve Review, Blog, Cameras, Cardboard, Certiicate, CG, CGI, Chopin, cinema, Cinema 4D, craft, Cranes, Cube Craft, Design, Diggin, Discussions, documents, Education, free, Gizmos, google, graphic, Graphic Arts, High School, iPod Touch Games, knights, LG Vu and At&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;t, LG Vu and At&amp;t, LG Vu Review, Line Rider Skate Video, Listen, Mac, maxon, mcdaniel, Movie, Music, Nevada, New Music, Nikon, Nikon D40, NIN, padawan, podcast, Research, Rider, round, Round Mountain, Round Mountian, RPG Mobile Games, Scholastic, Schools, Shortcuts, Silver, Southern, Sports, spreadsheets, Test, TF2, The Cure, The Vandals, Tips, Tips and Shortcuts, Transform, Transformers, Tutorial, Violent Femmes, Vu, Weekly Assignments, wil, Wordpress on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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Congratulations to A.J. Salazar!

Posted in Education, tagged A.j., Alfonso, Art, Articles, Awards, Certiicate, Design, Discussions, Education, google, graphic, Graphic Arts, High School, Key, knights, Mac, mcdaniel, Merit, mountain, Nevada, Research, round, Round Mountain, Round Mountian, Salazar, Scholastic, Schools, Silver, Southern, wil, Wordpress on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Congratulations to A.J. Salazar for winning a Silver Key and a Certificate of Merit for his Portrait 3 and Portrait 5 Drawings submitted to the Nevada State Scholastics Art Awards Competition. All artists, whose artwork is listed as receiving awards are invited to be exhibited at the Telecommunications Building of the CSN Cheyenne Campus on [...]

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Settings for output of your final image!

Posted in Education, tagged Cinema 4D, High School, Graphic Arts, Round Mountain, Art, Design, Education, free, google, documents, spreadsheets, knights, Jayhawks, Schools, Discussions, mcdaniel, mountain, round, 4d, maxon, cinema, graphic, LG, AT&T, AT&amp;T, Rider, CGI, CG, 3D Tutorials, Cinema 4D Tutorials, Movie on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Due Wednesday, two different submissions for the yearbook cover from those of you working alone and three submissions from those of you working in teams….Store these rendered .jpgs (images) on your flash drive. labeled “your name_number of the image(1, 2, etc….) The images below show how to output your images in your render settings.

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