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amazing program for designers remains obscure
We owe a lot to Adobe, but I get concerned about the Macromedia acquisition.
With everyone working in the same programs, graphics seems on the brink of moving toward a
generic sameness.When I started out in the field, it was normal to see Fractal Painter along with Photoshop on
company hard drives. Now you never see anything except the usual Photoshop, After Effects and
Illustrator. Ho hum.
And I’ve never seen a fine program like Studio Artist on a hard drive at any design
firm I’ve ever worked in.Designers seem to have lost their spirit of adventure, and developers find our market too small
to put a major effort into trying to compete with Adobe.I just stumbled on an old experimental animation done by keeping the mouse down on a single
Studio Artist Brush.
https://mangoinc.com/studio_artist_brush.movIt’s a modest experiment – but you could not get this simple effect in After Effects.
SA has animating brushes can be recorded real time, there is morphing, vector brushes,
brush particles, more stuff than I can think of..It is a Disneyland for designers, and I’m wondering if the program will come and go, like
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There are two features that I use most. Recording brush strokes in real time. I’t’s fun to move around a warp brush so that the image smears around. Another one is the live brush strokes on a path, so that you have an outline in an animating stroke. The gallery is mostly painterly but I’ve seen work by designers that stands apart from the crowd. It’s easy to forget about sa since it isn’t a standard. I want to find time to get into it deeper.
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what is the url for studio artist?
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This guy does stunning work with Studio Artist
https://www.takagimasakatsu.com/
I couldn’t find his best, which is called bloomy-girls
Here is the SA URL
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