NY Counterpoint in London

Jean Detheux’s latest film ‘NY Counterpoint’ will be appearing in the London International Animation Festival on Saturday September 4th. This Studio Artist animated film appears in the International Programme 8 : Abstract Showcase. The film features music by Steve Reich arranged for tape and piano, recorded and performed by Belgain pianist Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven. NY Counterpoint…

Portrait Virus 2010

Studio Artist user Michael Wright is presenting his Portrait Virus Project in the Studio of the SIGGRAPH 2010 Conference in Los Angeles from July 25th through July 29th. Wright will use Studio Artist to create portraits of attendees to form a gallery of images printed, projected, blogged at portraitvirussiggraph2010.blogspot.com and placed in his Castle Gallery…

Charis Tsevis’s PhotoStream

There’s a large collection of amazing artwork created by Studio Artist user Charis Tsevis available for your viewing pleasure on Flickr. Charis is a master of using movie brushes to create photo mosaic effects in Studio Artist. His new experiments using Studio Artist to create NeoCubism effects are also pretty cool. Charis’s artwork is widely…

Paint Regionization Fill Strategies

This tutorial continues our recent series delving into the secrets of fine tuning auto-regionizing paint effects using the Studio Artist 4 paint synthesizer. In this post we’ll be examining different fill strategies for auto-painting in individual regions. The example above was created by using 3 different auto-regionization action steps incorporated into a paint action sequence…

FineTuning Paint Regionization Effects

The Studio Artist 4 paint synthesizer is capable of creating an extremely wide range of different paint styles. This post is going to focus on discussing some editing techniques you can use to fine tune the appearance of Path Start Regionization painting effects. Path Start Regionization is an intelligent process where Studio Artist visually analyzes…

Studio Artist 4.02 Update Available

The latest Studio Artist 4.02 update is now available as a free update for all registered Studio Artist 4 customers. Studio Artist 4.02 contains a number of new features, as well as bug fixes and enhancements. Gallery Show is a cool new feature in version 4 that allows you to build custom free running art…

A Study in Creative Exploration

Studio Artist is an incredibly rich sand box for artistic creative exploration and discover. Creativity is an active process of discovery of new ideas. Typically by generating many trial ideas, and then discarding useless or unproductive ones. I thought it might be illuminating to break down a particular instance of some personal creative exploration that…

Craig Deeley’s Natural Media Presets

Studio Artist user Craig Deeley has put together a really wonderful collection of natural media paint presets. These presets are primarily designed for manual hand painting, and emulate different natural media types. The different art media tools provided include things like watercolor, ink, charcoal, pencil, oil paint, pastels, and crayons as well as more exotic…