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Movie formats

I've got a 300 MB H.264/QT movie loaded as a source and when I click the Play button in the Source window, it does not advance -  end and star buttons both work. I have an interactive paint preset loaded Particle Painting) and I am trying to draw on

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2 Replies · Reply by Donna Kuhn Apr 10, 2022

Symmetry in Nature and Art

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Symmetry is very common in biological structures in nature.  Because of that, and because different areas of your visual cortex are specifically stimulated by it when it is present in observed in visual imagery, it is also a common motif in visual a

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Digital Image Representations

I thought it might be a useful exercise to run through some introductory tutorial material associated with how digital images are represented digitally.  And how one can work with the components of these different representation to build visual effec

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5 Replies · Reply by Synthetik Mar 19, 2022

photo mosaic

I'm making a mosaic but I want my paint nibs or brush to be masked in the shape I draw or I want to rotate the contents of the brush in real-time as I draw. I don't want the whole image to show in the shape that I draw, only the part I need (like mas

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6 Replies · Reply by ASARE CHRISTIAN Feb 28, 2022

PSC help

Hi,

I've been working/experimenting with Vectorizer Regioninze generator, under PSC/Path Start,

I have two questions:

  • Vectorizer Regionize, has a control for PSR Source. I can select one of three,  Source, Style or MSG.

            1.  Is it possible to

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4 Replies · Reply by Tony Bouttell Feb 13, 2022

Photo Mosaic using my images

Does anyone know if there's a way to limit the times a image can be used when auto-painting a mosaic? I have 2000 unigue images that I only want to be used once each (I have others that can be used as many times as needed). Is there a way to regulate

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1 Reply · Reply by Synthetik Jan 29, 2022

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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1 Reply · Reply by Thor Johnson Apr 13

Studio Artist is in Italy!

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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3 Replies · Reply by Thor Johnson Apr 13

The Overload

"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…

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1 Reply · Reply by Thor Johnson Mar 31

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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2 Replies · Reply by Thor Johnson Mar 30