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…
Studio Artist user Tucker Stilley (aka New Jack Rasputan) has an on-going exhibition at the Monte Vista Projects in LA. The exhibition is part installation, part interactive performance. The walls are covered with digital prints of various sizes, rendered in a loose, lively, collage-like style, as well as passages of printed text — fragments of…
Studio Artist user Jean Detheux has recently posted a nice collection of some of his newer Studio Artist animation clips to his web site www.vudici.net. The clips also include some of his live improvised visual performances in addition to the rendered animation pieces. You can check out all this new material at this link.
Studio Artist user Christopher Werronen has been exploring creating Stereoscopic 3D cartoon style video effects using Studio Artist. There are a few people I’m aware of who have used the Studio Artist paint synthesizer to create 3D stereoscopic painted imagery but this is the first user i’m aware of who is creating cartoon style stereoscopic…
There’s an extremely wide range of different photo mosaic style photo effects that can be generated using Studio Artist. These include the traditional regular block photo mosaics to more exotic adaptive irregular shaped photo mosaics or even movie mosaics (movies made up of a collection of smaller movies). The image below is an example of…
If you are in or near New York City on April 11th be sure to check out the 2009 Visual Music Marathon. The marathon includes works from Studio Artist animators Jean Detheux, Michael Theodore and Dennis Miller. The Visual Music Marathon will be held at the Visual Arts Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, New York…
If you have not heard of the legendary alto sax player and jazz musician Art Pepper you really should check out some of his music. And a great way to get started is to watch this new music video put together by his wife and long time Studio Artist user Laurie Pepper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNQgVMM4YxU Laurie uses…
Long time Studio Artist users know that i’m a big fan of looking for ways to use Studio Artist to emulate various archaic printing technologies of the past. Richard Benson’s book on ‘The Printed Picture’ has a section that talks about the use of the pantograph in the 19th century to make reproductive etchings of…