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…

Getting Started with Digital Painting

Studio Artist’s Paint Synthesizer is an amazingly versatile digital painting tool. You can choose to paint manually, with assistance or completely automatically. There are thousands of factory paint presets available to help you get started. Paint presets are completely editable, so it’s easy to customize them to suit the needs of your own individual workflow…

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…