Tag Archives: warp
Using Translate Warp to Create Symmetry Effects
Today’s post discusses how to use the Translate interactive warp to build mirror symmetry effects.
Color Wave Abstraction
Today’s post shows how to build a simple color wave abstraction of the source image. The effect combines a MSG preset that generates a series of colored bands with an interactive warp option that warps the colored bands based on the source image.
Colorizing a Flat Color MSG Edge Abstraction
Yesterday we showed how to build a float sum area MSG preset that generates a resolution independent color source edge abstraction effect. Today we’ll show how to colorize yesterdays’s flat color edge effect. We’ll also add some symmetry translation warping to the colorized edge abstraction to create the finished effect shown above.
Live Video Capture Warping
Interactive warp operation mode lets you dynamically generate a wide variety of different warp effects in real time based on your mouse movement in the Studio Artist canvas. Although there are not currently warp presets, you can save individual warp operations in a PASeq if you want to save them for later use as pre-built warp effects. The settings for the last warp operation you generated are also saved internally after you finish the warp. So if you initially do a manual warp, then start loop action while still in warp operation mode, the last warp effect you generated will be run in loop action. This enables you to do live warp processing of live video frame captures using an iSight or web cam while running loop action.
DualMode Paint Tunnel Animation Effect
Today’s post combines a paint preset that draws luminescent rectangular bars along with an interactive warp effect to create an animating paint tunnel effect.
Using Translate Warp Generated Symmetry with a Movie Brush Effect
We’ve been talking about different approaches to building symmetry in our recent posts. I wanted to conclude the discussions by taking a look at a piece i recently put together. We’ll take an overview look at how the above image was constructed in this post.
Using Translate Warp to Build Symmetry Effects
We’ve discussed building symmetry effects in the last 2 posts using a simple MSG preset. This post shows off a different approach to building symmetry effects using interactive Translate warps.
Breaking Symmetry in Kaleidoscopic Effects
We’ve recently been discussing different approaches to building kaleidoscopic effects in Studio Artist. Two days ago we discussed symmetry vs breaking symmetry, and how breaking symmetry can lead to more organic looking effects that still maintain some of the perceptual trigger aspects introduced by symmetry in visual imagery. Today’s post will continue this discussion by exploring some of the modulatable kaleidoscopic effects available via MSG processors. Modulation being used as a way to break symmetry in a kaleidoscopic (or other geometric warp) effect.
Alternative Kaleidoscopic Effects
Studio Artist provides a wide range of different and unique kaleidoscopic effects that extend beyond the limited range of typical kaleidoscopic effects seen in other digital effects programs. The image above shows off an inverse kaleidoscopic effect (something unique to Studio Artist). This post will take a look at some of the other kaleidoscopic effects you can create in Studio Artist 4 that go beyond the norm.
Two Different Approaches to Building Kaleidoscopic Effects
The screen shot above shows 2 different approaches you can take to build kaleidoscopic effects in Studio Artist 4. The Interactive Warp operation mode provides a large number of different Kaleidoscopic effects that can be interactively manipulated in real time. The MSG operation mode also provides a vast range of different kaleidoscopic preset effects as well as the means to build your own custom and unique variations on these kinds of effects.
