Studio Artist Tips

Studio Artist provides many different ways to generate or process movie files. Sometimes it might be desirable to hand paint or otherwise modify individual frames in a pre-existing movie file. This tip discusses how to use movie layers to do some hand paint touchup to an existing paint animation movie previously generated in Studio Artist by animating a Paint Action Sequence.

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Sequential Keyframe Recording is a feature available when working with Paint Action Sequences (PASeq) to generate hand painted animations or movies. Sequential Keyframe Recording can be used to help automate some of the repetitive and tedious issues associated with building up interpolated keyframe animation from a series of hand drawn sketches or paintings. This tip will discuss working with sequential keyframe recording in detail.

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There are a number of different user configurable Paint Action Sequence (PASeq) Editor parameter options. These user adjustable options allow a user to control PASeq playback associated with masking, layer and view changes, path layer record options, and source color memories. The PASeq Editor parameters are stored as a part of a PASeq preset file. This tip will discuss the PASeq Editor parameters in more detail.

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There are a number of different adjustable Paint Action Sequence (PASeq) preference options you can use to fine tune the behavior of PASeq playback based on your personal workflow needs. These include options for controlling when the Editor and canvas are updated during PASeq playback as well as how keyframe interpolation works.  This tip will discus the PASeq preference options in more detail.

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Paint Action Sequences ( or PASeq ) are what you use to combine together different manual or automatic processing or painting steps into a script that can be saved as a preset file. You can use PASeqs to build processing effects that are composed of a number of different individual action steps that work together to build the overall visual effect. PASeqs can record all of your individual manual or automatic  painting steps, which can then be edited or adjusted and then replayed into a new blank canvas. You also use PASeqs to build intelligent scripts that process movie files.  This tutorial will focus on explaining how to work with paint action sequences.

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