Displacement mapping is an extremely useful technique to master and include in your digital effects toolbox. By displacement, we typically mean that individual pixels in the processed image are generated from different spatially modulated positions in the image. So you can think of displacement mapping as being a warp process. A second image is used…
I’ve recently been exploring the notion of using Paint Action Sequence (PASeq) keyframing to build iterative paint strategies. As we have discussed in previous posts, a paint strategy is a series of different steps that work together over time to build up a particular artistic style or emulative technique. Using the PASeq timeline and it’s…
Movie Brushes are a powerful feature in the Studio Artist paint synthesizer. You can use them to create endless varieties of textural patterns in your paintings and photo mosaic imagery created with the paint synthesizer. This could take the form of full photo mosaic effects that try to reproduce the source image with a series…
I had a conversation with a Studio Artist user recently about different approaches to building ‘paint strategies’, and thought it was worth repeating some of that conversation here for other users. By ‘paint strategies’,I mean the different approaches one can take to building up a custom art process to create some kind of finished piece…
I’ve recently been experimenting with procedural strategies for creating generative abstract art. There are a lot of different approaches you can take within Studio Artist to create different styles of generative art. For example, there have been a number of different posts here on directed evolution of MSG processors. But you can also use the…
The previous post talked about how to build hatching patterns from Movie Pixel Indexing Background Textures in the Paint Synthesizer. But there are many other approaches to generating hatching patterns in the paint synthesizer. This post will explore the use of embedded bezier paths to define custom hatching patterns. The particular factory preset we will…
Many people aren’t aware of a powerful feature associated with the Background Texture control panel in the Studio Artist paint synthesizer. One of the background texture types is called ‘Movie Pixel Index’. It’s one of 2 different background texture types that work with loaded movie files. What’s unique about the Movie Pixel Index texture type…
I question i often get asked when demoing Studio Artist is something along the lines of, ‘I love that paint effect, but is there any way to make it more representational of the original source image?’ An easy solution to this question is to just mix some of the original source image into the painting.…
There are a number of different path start generators in the Studio Artist Paint Synthesizer that support paint regionization. What this means is that the paint synthesizer analyzes your source image and then breaks it into a series of different geometric regions and paints in each region individually. This is an alternative approach to the…
Studio Artist creator John Dalton will be giving a 1 hour presentation on Digital Creativity and Studio Artist at HMAUS’s Mactoberfest on Saturday, October 18th from 11-12 am. Mactoberfest is a free and public event celebrating mac computer culture. Everyone interested in Studio Artist or Apple computers is urged to attend. For more information on…