Automatic Painting of Video or Auto-Rotoscoping. Studio Artist can automatically generate hi-resolution, "hand-painted" animation using any resolution Quicktime movie as its source. This is what we call resolution independent "auto-rotoscoping" and Studio Artist is the only software on the planet that is able to do this.

This is not a simple filter or cloning process. Studio Artist paints like an artist... examining the "model" and automatically painting each new frame using any of the 2000 extremely rich and completely editable preset paint patches provided with version 2.0. You simply make stylistic choices and Studio Artist does the painting for you.

Mixed Media. In addition to auto-painting frames you can also mix in filter effects, use layers, compositing, create textures with the Texture Synthesizer, warp, morph and more. The possibilities are limitless. With Studio Artist you can easily create your own look because the effects are NOT CANNED but flexible.

Resolution Independence.  A small compressed source movie can serve as the model for an entirely new, painted animation at any resolution... even film resolution! Additionally, since Studio Artist uses vectors underneath its raster paint strokes, at any point in the process, you can decide to output a new movie at a different resolution and Studio Artist will automatically adjust canvas size, "re-scale" all paint and image processing parameters and re-render the movie at its new resolution. This gives you complete resolution independence and flexibility. Work from any size source movie...output at any resolution you choose! Create styles with the Paint Action Sequence and apply them to any movie.

Rendering times.  Studio Artist's rendering times are quite reasonable, depending on the complexity of your Paint Action Sequence.  Most of the animation examples you see on this page took only 10-15 minutes to render on an older iMac (300Mhz)... and this was at high resolution in Animation or DV codec!