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…
Studio Artist user Jean Detheux is presenting his Studio Artist animated film “La Folia” at the RVCQ fesitval in Montréal this month. “La Folia” was selected in the “Art et Expérimentation – Corps et Danse” programme (“Art and Experimentation – Body and Dance” program). For its 27th year in existence, the RVCQ festival, a celebration…
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…
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…
Gallery Show is a new automated presentation feature in Studio Artist 4. Gallery Show allows you to construct custom art shows that could be displayed in a gallery or used in a live performance. Gallery Show is also a great tool for automatically generating collections of art images and the presets that built them. You…
We recently stumbled upon Studio Artist user H.J. Kropp’s visual sketchbook blog, and it’s truly awe inspiring. Lot’s of great Studio Artist generated art there. There’s also some cool examples of his Studio Artist ‘One Minute Paintings’ which is a really interesting way to approach creating art that is fun, fast, and highly successful.…
On the anniversary of it’s initial Sundance Film Festival premiere, I thought it was time to take another look at the making of the Studio Artist animated film Year of the Fish. What I love about Year of the Fish is that it’s a beautiful example of what a single individual can achieve working with…
Studio Artist provides a large number of different tools you can use to build a wide variety of different photo mosaic or photo montage effects. The example above shows an adaptive photo mosaic effect, rendering one large image using a collection of different sized smaller sub images. This tutorial will discuss some approaches you can…
We’ve been posting information regarding Studio Artist 4 here and on the Studio Artist User Forum for awhile now. So we wanted to present some update information on what’s happening with the Studio Artist 4 release. Quick Overview of Studio Artist 4 Features Studio Artist 4 is the next generation of Studio Artist digital art,…
One of the cool things about Studio Artist is that it bridges the gap between 2D art programs and video processing and animation programs. What i love about this is that it allows for cross pollination between different art forms that would normally not mix. Sometimes 2D artists wonder why they would need to use…