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…
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…
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…
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…
The previous post talked about how to build hatching patterns from Movie Pixel Indexing Background Textures in the Paint Synthesizer. But there are many other approaches to generating hatching patterns in the paint synthesizer. This post will explore the use of embedded bezier paths to define custom hatching patterns. The particular factory preset we will…
I question i often get asked when demoing Studio Artist is something along the lines of, ‘I love that paint effect, but is there any way to make it more representational of the original source image?’ An easy solution to this question is to just mix some of the original source image into the painting.…
There are a number of different path start generators in the Studio Artist Paint Synthesizer that support paint regionization. What this means is that the paint synthesizer analyzes your source image and then breaks it into a series of different geometric regions and paints in each region individually. This is an alternative approach to the…
Studio Artist user Charis Tsevis recently created several photo mosaic portraits for publication in the LA Times based on imagery from the 2008 Olympics. By photo mosaic i mean a picture generated from a collection of smaller photos arranged to represent the larger image. Studio Artist provides many tools that enable you to take traditional…