Paul Perlow’s Letter Project

Studio Artist user Paul Perlow has recently started a series of Studio Artist renditions for the alphabet. I think the quality of the images are quite stunning and wanted to share them. I also like the notion of projects like this that create a situation that provides focus for a series of artistic works. The…

Film Festival Updates

I wanted to mention some recent Studio Artist film festival activity. Studio Artist user Donna Kuhn had her short film Spinning shown recently at the Disposable Film Festival in San Francisco. Studio Artist user Jean Detheux will be screening his new film Shade Recovered at the “Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois” festival. It will screen on…

The Joy of Displacement Mapping

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…

Iterative Paint Strategies

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…

Constructing a Paint Strategy

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…