Working with Editor Panels

Studio Artist Editor At the bottom of every preset window there is an editor toggle.  If you do not see this make sure the Editor is checked in the Windows menu. Some Studio Artist Modes have only one Editor Panel such as Image Operations and some have multiple Editor Panels, such as the Paint Synthesizer…

Building Tone in an Image

This tip is going to discuss some Studio Artist features useful for building up tone in an image. Tone or mass can be thought of as representing the visual weight of a sketch or artistic rendition and relates to building some kind of representation of the original source luminance in the artistic rendition of that…

Generating Bezier Paths from Images

There are a wide variety of different tools available in Studio Artist for converting raster images into bezier path renditions of the image. These include techniques to generate bezier path edge sketches (like above), as well as bezier mass sketches based on cross-hatching, and complete cartoon-style vector renditions of color imagery. This tip will provide…

Hand Paint Touchup to an Existing Movie File

Studio Artist provides many different ways to generate or process movie files. Sometimes it might be desirable to hand paint or otherwise modify individual frames in a pre-existing movie file. This tip discusses how to use movie layers to do some hand paint touchup to an existing paint animation movie previously generated in Studio Artist…