I’ve been doing some experiments recently building paint presets that paint with actual chaotic attractors, as seen in the image above. This example showcases how you can use different Studio Artist features working together to build an overall artistic process. I started out by building a MSG preset that renders a pickover chaotic attractor, as…
Studio Artist user Ben Balser will be giving a Studio Artist presentation at FEAR in New Orleans, the Film, Effects and Animation Revival on Sunday, October 5, from 4-5 pm. Ben will show the basic tools available in Studio Artist. Ben has this to say about his presentation. ‘Designed for fine arts work, Studio Artist…
Studio Artist user Zennor Alexander has recently posted some awesome music animations on his web site www.colliderscope.com. Zennor focuses on the animations while collaborating with Fiona Soe Paing who does the music. Check out the movie ‘Tamin Sah Pade’ for some examples of his Studio Artist work. Zennor and Fiona plan a DVD release for…
Symmetry can often be used as a powerful component of a given artistic image. This is true because there is a hard-wired component of the visual system that recognizes and perceives symmetry in an image before we even become consciously aware of that fact. Christopher Tyler at the Smith Kettlewell Eye Institute in San Francisco…
Studio Artist user Jean Detheux will be performing live with Studio Artist at the Case Obscura in Montreal on September 17th at 8pm. Jean will be working with three video streams projected live in conjunction with live musicians as a part of the performance. For more information go to www.casaobscura.org. And you can check out…
Studio Artist user Karen Hochman Brown had an interesting project going called ‘An Apple a Day’ that really got me thinking about different approaches to creating art. The idea was to create a unique art rendition of a particular object, in this case an apple, every day. Each apple was rendered in a different artistic…
MSG (modular synthesized graphics) is Studio Artist’s modular image processing architecture. Almost 500 different image processing modules (called processors) are available within MSG and can be combined together to create an infinite variety of different image synthesis or processing effects. MSG can be used to create abstract procedural imagery or animations from scratch. MSG can…
Studio Artist user Charis Tsevis recently created several photo mosaic portraits for publication in the LA Times based on imagery from the 2008 Olympics. By photo mosaic i mean a picture generated from a collection of smaller photos arranged to represent the larger image. Studio Artist provides many tools that enable you to take traditional…
Studio Artist user Dylan Harris is a poet who has been expanding the notion of electronic literature from traditional oral poetry recital to a full multimedia experience. Dylan will be presenting his ‘Poetry Accompanied by Processed Photography’ presentation at the Electronic Literature in Europe conference, which takes place in Bergen Norway from September 11-13. Dylan…