The image above is an example of stack filtering a series of painted portrait images. The individual painted portraits were generated in Studio Artist by artist Michael Wright, and are documented in his ongoing personal portrait virus blog. The Studio Artist generated image shown above is an example of stack filtering 197 individual painted portraits…
Studio Artist user Dennis Miller recently corresponded with me regarding a new project he’s been working on. It involves a variation of a technique i’ve also recently been exploring, one i call stack filtering. Dennis spent six months in Africa this spring he chronicled in his trip blog, primarily in Ghana, but he also spent…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…