Using MSG to Build a Warping Attractor

The previous post showed how to use the PushPull interactive warp operation to add a warping pull-in attractor to a generative paint animation. MSG presets are another approach you can take to create warp effects that pull in (attractors) or pull out (repulsers). This post will discuss how to build a simple MSG preset that…

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Adding a Pull-In Attractor to a Time Particle Paint Animation

The following two images are frame captures from 2 different generative paint animation. The paint animations are based on the same paint action sequence (PASeq) that combines some image operations, interactive warps, and auto painting time particles to build a wispy abstract paint animation. The first animation frame capture is using an interactive warp PushPull…

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Converting a Blur Effect into a Sharpen Effect

Studio Artist’s various operation modes that generate visual effects all contain standardized generic Compositing controls that can be used to subtly or radically change the nature of a given effect. This post will show how to use the Edge1 option for the generic Composite control in an image processing effect to convert an effect that…

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Time Axis Rotation

  Time Axis Rotation (shown above) is a cool temporal image processing feature available in Studio Artist 4. The image shown above is a frame capture from a time axis rotation video, which was generated by processing a source video of some kung fu fighters in a gym throwing kicks at each other with a time axis…

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