Studio Artist Tips

Studio Artist’s paint synthesizer is an amazingly versatile digital painting tool. You can choose to paint manually or just press the action button and let Studio Artist paint your source image automatically. There are thousands of factory paint presets available to help you get started. Paint presets are completely editable, so it’s easy to customize [...]

Gallery Show is a cool new feature in Studio Artist 4. You can use it to build free-running art shows that endlessly loop creating new art imagery for display in an art gallery. You can also use gallery show to automatically generate sets of randomly evolved art images or effect presets that can be culled [...]

Studio Artist includes a large number of different image operation effects that are raster image processing effects. However, you can use Studio Artist’s Vectorizer to generate vector output from a raster image processing effect. Studio Artist 4 can output EPS, SVG, and PDF vector files. This tutorial will run through the steps necessary to convert [...]

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 [...]