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Is anybody making a copy of all the material in the Tutorials Forum
Since the Forum is going away in June, has anyone started to make a copy of all the stuff in the Tutorials forum?I've made copies of some of the tutorial material on the main site, but haven't looked at the Tutorial Forum yet.I'm going to continue copying as much as I can for my own personal use anyway, but if anyone else is doing it, or has already started doing it, please let me know.Maybe we can co-ordinate our efforts. ps can't ..... believe John, would let this happen without so much as a…
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I was crawling the streets of Matera, Italy today and may have discovered where SA is hiding! (see attached photo). Not meaning to make light of this great, sad mystery. But I just couldn't resist as I try to make sense of what's happening. Losing my connection to SA, Synthetik and John has been a great sadness... and if real, ends a monumental era in my creative life. love,~Victor
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"The Overload"! A video with music, from the various experiments I made in Studio Artist with stuff that I have learned in the last few days, from tips and tricks I found by scouring this site and the Synthetik site for tutorials etc. MSG! Paint Synth with MSG Path Generation! Movie Brushes with MSG Path Start Generation! Time Particles! Time Particles with MSG Path Start Generation running Movie Brushes! All that, and more! Haha I have been trying to stretch the Paint Synthesizer in the…
Read more…Teenage Tongue Cult
Hi, here is the video I made back in 2010 for my song "Teenage Tongue Cult". I finally found my master folder of image sequence files for it on one of my old hard drives, and since the version I had on my Vimeo was of pretty terrible pixelated low quality visually, I re-did it yesterday. It has extensive use of Studio Artist through the whole thing. I made it by first animating the characters and scenes in Flash, against a mostly kind of muddy green background, a color I knew wasn't being used…
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Rather than starting with the source and then painting over it, have you tried doing that for the first frame only and then for the other frames just overpaint on your previous output frame. This will be much more successful in reducing flicker, and the fact that you may have missed few spots will help reduce flicker even more.
You can use the path start and path end settings to help speed up drawing of the complete frame. Using the blanking buffer is a good approach to this. In path start control panel, turn on 'reset blanking before action'. Set the Blanking popup to brush only. Set the Inhibitor to skip blanking. What these settings will do in insure that path start points always occur on a part of the canvas that has not been painted in this paint pass.
Then, you can set the path end blanking control on. this will insure that paths will stop drawing when they run into an area already drawn.
I read that you are on a deadline and so I will presume that you followed John's suggestions and are at least halfway done by now.
But if you are doing something like this again I would suggest building a Paseq out of ImOps. It will run faster. For effects like a generalized watercolor or oil paint look it is quite possible to use the Image operations of SA to create the effect. It will take a bit of tweeking to get it right for your particular source material. But once you have it, the Pas will run much quicker that an auto frame paint preset. I attached an example of how this can be done.
As for flicker there have been several discussions in the forum on how to reduce this. There is also some guidance on the subject in the SA help manual. I suggest a search of the forum and manual to learn these techniques for future efforts.
The pic below is a screen grab of a movie processed with the attached PAS. All ImOp no auto painting steps involved.
Oil4roto-.zip