Introduction to the Paint Synthesizer

  The Paint Synthesizer   The Paint Synthesizer allows you to create an unlimited range of different manual or automatic paint tools and effects. You can interactively paint or draw manually via the mouse or a pen and tablet, or press the Action button and the Paint Synthesizer will analyze the source image and automatically…

Improving Edge Rendition in a Painting

Beginning Studio Artist users often just select a paint preset, hit Action, let the preset draw, stop the drawing, finished painting. However, by working with the controls in the paint synthesizer you can tweak any given preset to modify it’s rendition of the source image you are painting. This can be useful to focus on…

Understanding the Classic Paint Synthesizer

The purpose of this guide is to help you get started understanding the Studio Artist Paint Synthesizer. We’ll cover some of the design philosophy behind the Paint Synthesizer as well as provide an overview of some of its wide range of different features. What is the Paint Synthesizer? Paint Synthesizer is a digital paint engine.…

Procedural vs Keyframe MSG Animation

MSG presets can be used to create abstract imagery or image and video processing effects. The individual editable parameters associated with MSG presets can be modulated over time to build dynamic animation or processing effects. This tip will take a look at 2 different approaches to building MSG animations. They are procedural animation via attaching…