Tag Archives: wet
Going With or Against the Grain – Working with Paint Stroke Orientation
Today’s post discusses how to work with the Path Angle control panel in the paint synthesizer to adjust paint stroke path orientation in relationship to the source image orientation. Depending on whether auto-painting tries to track the source orientation or draw perpendicular to it can dramatically change the visual appearance of the final painted output.
Wet Paper Towel Paint Effect
Today’s post continues our recent discussion of some different approaches to building wet paint effects. Today’s post takes a look at a paint preset that simulates painting on top of a wet paper towel. This produces a very soft diffuse wet colored paint backing effect.
Wet Paint Effects Using Geodesic Source Brush Type
Today’s post is more of an introduction into a specific approach to building a wet paint effect in the paint synthesizer, as opposed to a tutorial on building a specific finished visual effect. The image above just shows a few wet spreading paint strokes drawn using today’s paint preset. Today’s paint preset works best for manual painting using a pressure sensitive pen and tablet.
Building a Progressive Movie Processing Melt Effect
Someone recently asked about how to generate a progressive wet melt effect applied to a movie file. So that as the processed movie plays, the wet melt effect applied to the movie gets progressively more extreme over time. This is actually pretty easy to achieve in Studio Artist, by key-framing your wet melt effect over time in the Paint Action Sequence Timeline.
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).
