Tag Archives: vectorizer
Using the Interactive Masking Selection Tool to Create Silhouette Images
3 Videos Addressing A User’s Request to Make Hi-Res Silhouettes from low-res Dog Images This series addresses interactive masking, erasers, dodge and burn tools and the vectorizer.
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.
Mixing Vectorizer Effects into an Image Ex2
Yesterday we talked about some creative ways to add stylized vectorizer abstraction effects into a digital photo. Today’s post continues that discussion, creating a kind of hyper enhanced abstraction of an original landscape photo.
Mixing Vectorizer Effects into an Image
There are lot’s of different approaches you can take to mix vectorizer effects into a natural image. For this particular effect, i wanted to break up the smooth gradients in the original landscape photo by adding in a stylized vectorizer abstraction of the original photo. Rather than just overlay the vectorizer effect on top of the original photo, i used edge compositing to mix the 2 images together to create a very specific artistic effect.
Vector Color Line Screen Effect
Today’s post will show off how to combine the Line Screen Regionize image operation with the Vectorizer to create a vector color line screen effect.
Vector Paint Blob Splashes – Building Better Source Representation
Yesterday we showed how to configure the paint synthesizer to build vector paint blobs that simulate splashing paint. Today we’ll extend yesterday’s abstract paint effect to build a finished painting that is more representational of the source image.
Vectorizer Close Packed Circles
Today’s post shows how to configure the vectorizer to generate a close packed circle representation of an image.
Stylized Vector Edge Effect
Today’s post shows how to combine together an image operation effect and the Vectorizer to create a stylized black and white edge effect. We’ll be using the Vectorizer’s Flat Input Technique, which allows you to take a flat color image generated by a raster image processing effect and convert it into a vector representation.
Using the Vectorizer to Define PhotoMosaic Shapes
Yesterday we showed how to use the Vectorizer to generate flat colored regions that were then used to position paint synthesizer text brush word positioning. Today we’ll show an approach to use the Vectorizer to build a region effect abstracted flat color source representation that the paint synthesizer will then convert into a photo mosaic image based on a movie brush. The photo mosaic sub image layout will be based on the abstracted shapes generated by the Vectorizer.
