Studio Artist Tips

MSG Evolver is a stand alone MSG editing and effects application that shipped with the Studio Artist 3.5 release. One particularly cool feature of Evolver is the Art Mapper, which can be used to generate photo mosaic effects and/or composite art images created from multiple applications of MSG presets. This tip will discuss some approaches to duplicating [...]

Typically the paint synthesizer auto-draws by generating a paint path and then painting it in. This process repeats individual path by path. However, you can configure the paint synthesizer to analyze the source image, construct a series of automatically generated regions, and then fill in each region with different kinds of paint patterns. In this [...]

The image below is an example of a photo mosaic image created by using a movie brush in the paint synthesizer. This tip will walk you through how to create your own custom movie brush which you can then use to create your own custom photo mosaic effects in the paint synthesizer.