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 [...]

In this tutorial we’ll be exploring the use of Studio Artist 4’s Temporal Image Operations for processing movie files.  Temporal or time based image operations are effects that use multiple frames in a source movie to build each effected output frame. The example above is a single output frame that was generated using a temporal [...]

This tutorial continues our discussion of the mechanics of designing and building paint strategies for creating paint animation effects in Studio Artist.
To process a movie file in Studio Artist you first record a Paint Action Sequence (PASeq) and then process a movie file with the PASeq. A paint strategy is the series of processing steps [...]

This tutorial will show you how to process a movie file with a single image operation effect.
Studio Artist processes movie files with Paint Action Sequences (PASeq). A PASeq can be thought of as a script that details the different processing steps needed to achieve a certain stylistic effect. PASeqs consist of a series of action [...]

This tutorial continues our discussion of the mechanics of designing and building paint strategies for creating paint animation effects in Studio Artist.
Studio Artist uses Paint Action Sequences (PASeq) to process movies. So to implement your paint strategy for building a particular paint animation effect you need to record a series of action steps in a [...]