Constraining Automatic Paint Strokes

This Tip will show you how to constrain Autopainting so that the drawing is more representative of the Source Image The Paint Synthesizer is capable of generating an extremely wide variety of different paint styles.  This tip will focus on explaining how to get under the hood and edit paint presets to change their automatic…

Movie Processing Strategies Part 3

This tutorial continues our discussion of the mechanics of designing and building paint strategies for creating paint animation effects in Studio Artist. To process a movie file in Studio Artist you first record a Paint Action Sequence (PASeq) and then process a movie file with the PASeq. A paint strategy is the series of processing…

Movie Processing Strategies Part 2

This tutorial continues our discussion of the mechanics of designing and building paint strategies for creating paint animation effects in Studio Artist. Studio Artist uses Paint Action Sequences (PASeq) to process movies. So to implement your paint strategy for building a particular paint animation effect you need to record a series of action steps in…

Movie Processing Strategies

Studio Artist uses Paint Action Sequences to process QuickTime movie files. We have discussed the mechanics of working with Paint Action Sequences in previous tutorials and the User Guide. This tutorial is a more advanced look at different strategies to keep in mind when constructing Paint Action Sequences to process movie files.