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Auto-Rotoscoping – Making Animated Videos with Paint Action Sequences (PASeq)
Making Movies – Paint Action Sequence Basic Editing 1 This video explains how a Paint Action Sequence (PASeq) works in Studio Artist for making movies. You can also use any PASeq to make still images as well. This video will show you how to edit a Factory PASeq Preset. You will learn how to delete and add action steps, turn action steps on and off, mute and unmute steps plus create and record your own steps. You will also learn some basic editing of PASeq steps as well as the advanced trick of creating a ghost effect which helps with smoothing flicker.
Check out Cool new Music Video Made with Studio Artist For The Diving Bell
Studio Artist user Victor Ingrassia recently completed a music video called “China, My China” for the group “The Diving Bell”. “The Diving Bell” is out of Seattle, and the song and associated video were released on FIN Records. Check out the video Victor had this to say about the new music video. “I’ve been working on it since last November. I was able to work in 1080p using SA4, FCPX & Motion5. 95% of the content was created in Studio Artist 4. I used Motion 5 for some graphic elements as well as to make the blossom snow. Final Cut Pro X was where I composited and edited it. The speed of the new iMac, along with how sweet Studio Artist runs on the Intel processor, combined with FCPX’s background rendering allowed me to work experimentally and intuitively… often tossing material back and forth between Studio Artist, Final Cut & Motion. I was able to explore dangerous paths that would have wasted time I didn’t have, were I still using my old G5 tower. I worked mostly from found and stock footage using a combination of auto rotoscope and hand drawing. I had a great time making this and stretching my Studio Artist skill set.” I really like that the Fin Records label was inspired by Black Sparrow Press, Charles Bukowski’s publisher. Fin Records and the group are premiering the new music video this weekend at SXSW. Victor is a master at manipulating Studio Artist video processing effects, and has a ton of great Studio Artist processed video examples on both his web site and his vimeo site.
More on Simulating Video Feedback 2
Today’s post continues the discussion from yesterday about building MSG presets that simulate video feedback.
Recursive Apollonian Modulation Animation Experiment
Today’s post continues the image modulated apollonian gasket close packing experiment we started in yesterday’s post. We’ll modify yesterday’s MSG preset to combine 2 different image modulated close-packed abstractions into a single output image. And we’ll use self-modulating recursion to generate a series of images to build an abstract animation.
Mixing Temporal Generator and Keyframe MSG Animation
The image above is a frame capture from an abstract procedural animation generated by a MSG preset. The movement in the animation is built from a combination of attaching temporal generators to some MSG editable parameters along with the use of keyframe animation to interpolate between 2 different color palettes over the course of the animation. We’ll discuss how to build the animation to generate a seamless loop.
Self-Animating Kaleidoscopic Effect
We’ll finish up our recent discussions of kaleidoscopic effects you can create in Studio Artist today by showing how to use a temporal generator to create a self-animating kaleidoscopic animation. The particular approach we will take in this example also creates a self-looping animation sequence. The image above is a single frame capture from the 200 frame self-looping kaleidoscopic animation we will create.
Self-Animating MSG Generated Animation Created by a Beginner
Today’s post will take a detailed look at a MSG based animation created by one of our staff (Hulagirl). Keep in mind that Hulagirl was able to create this finished animation a few hours after being shown how to add temporal generators to MSG processor editable parameters to create self animating effects. I think this is a real testament to both the power of MSG as well as it’s ease of use.
Wet Face Melt
The image above is a frame capture from a simple animation generated by running a single paint synthesizer water wash preset in loop action while streaming the output into an open movie stream. We will be using the wet preset as a part of a more complicated generative paint animation in tomorrow’s post. But today we’ll have a little fun and show how to use water paint effects to melt faces (and also hopefully learn something about how water paint presets are constructed).
Recursive MSG Abstract Animation
The image above is a frame capture from an animation generated by running a MSG preset in loop action into an open movie stream. The processing is recursive, which means that the output of the previous MSG processing cycle is used as the input to the current MSG processing cycle. This post extends on the ideas presented in our post 3 days ago (Jan30th) on Simple MSG Procedural Abstract Animation.
Using Temporal Generators to Build MSG Abstract Animation Part 3
This post continues the recent series focused on using temporal generators to build self-animating MSG presets. Today’s post will focus on different coloring strategies for building abstract color imagery.
