Studio Artist user Thorrific has an art opening tonight August 23rd at the Metrognome Collective in Fort Worth Texas from 7 to 9 pm. There’s a live band Twigs and Yarn afterwards from 9 -11pm. Thor’s work always puts a smile on my face, so if you’re in the Fort Worth area stop by and…
Studio Artist animator Jean Detheux will be offering a course at Siggraph in New Orleans on Monday August 3rd from 8:30 to 10:15 am. The course is entitled ‘The Making of “Shade Recovered” : Networked Senses at Play’. The course will cover topics like ‘An exploration of sense-giving and sense-receiving in the visual aspect of…
Long time Studio Artist user Craig Deeley is an animator and illustrator based in San Diego. An example of his unique artistic style is shown above. This image was grabbed from his art blog GreenLightCD, which is well worth checking out. Craig also has a lot of different hand drawn art examples posted on the…
In a previous Anatomy of a MSG Effect post we discussed the inner workings behind programing a 2 step black and white sketch effect based on 2 different MSG presets combined together in a Paint Action Sequence (PASeq). In this post we’ll talk about how that black and white preset could be easily modified to…
Tom Dimuzio’s side project Dimmer’s latest album called Remissions features some cover artwork generated in Studio Artist 4. The cover image was generated using the new version 4 temporal image processing effects. The process used to generate the cover photo started with taking a video sequence of a moving truck. The video source footage was…
One cool new hidden feature in Studio Artist 4 is the ability to generate vector output from some MSG based effects. I forgot to mention this surprise new feature in the previous blog post on the anatomy of a black and white sketch effect. That particular MSG based sketch effect can be output as a…
I recently was asked how the image above was created. It was generated from a source image of a face that was processed in Studio Artist using a 2 step Paint Action Sequence (PASeq). Both action steps in the PASeq are custom MSG presets I constructed that work together to build the overall BW sketch…
One powerful feature of the Studio Artist Vectorizer is Region Effects. There’s a wide variety of different stylistic effects you can create by working with different Region Effect Options. Region Effect modify the shapes generated by the vectorizer processing. After stylizing the vector region shapes, when they are overlaid on the canvas they typically will…
Many Studio Artist users forget about the MSG Evolver application that also ships with Studio Artist 3.5. While MSG Evolver is a great tool for building MSG presets, you can also use it’s Art Mapper functionality to create photo mosaic imagery or even movie mosaics. While you can also create photo mosaic images using Studio…
Studio Artist user Michael Wright is one of the pioneer artists mentioned in a recent article by new media art historian Patric D Prince in the spring 09 issue of the ”Art Journal” published by the College Art Association. The Prince article “Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of Digital Printmaking in America” is one…