Sunday, November 30, 2008

Hard Hats Required


I was doing some Studio Artist testing and this popped out. The random placement of the eye sub image was perfect, thank you paint synthesizer.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Protection Dogs2


More images from the protection dogs series. These all start by vectorizing an image and then using that as the source for a graffiti photo mosaic created using the Studio Artist paint synthesizer drawing with a movie brush.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Protection Dogs


These are some experiments where i start by vectorizing an image, and then use that transformed image as the source for a graffiti photo mosaic. The graffiti mosaic is created using the Studio Artist paint synthesizer and a graffiti movie brush.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Turkey Head


Thought i'd paint a turkey since it's thanksgiving. We're headed out for Emu cooked turkey later today. Which basically means it was wrapped in aluminum foil and tossed in an underground fire pit overnight to cook.

I was kind of amused when i noticed what image comes up first if you do a google image search on turkey head.

House of Ink


More from the windward side tour. I was going for a soft colored chalk drawing style rendition for this video panorama. This was all done using Ip Ops in Studio Artist.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

All Roads Lead to Oneawa


This being a small island, it seems like all roads do indeed lead to Oneawa, home of the world famous Steak Rave. Generated from Flip video taken while driving, converted into a static panorama via the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker, with some vectorizer tossed in.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Yamashiros


Back to the windward side island tour, which would not be complete without a stop at Yamashiros. Generated from a Flip video pan converted into a static panorama using the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker. Added some vectorizer in a second layer.

Monday, November 24, 2008

More MSG Experiments


These kind of remind me of colored tin foil or metal paintings. They were created via directed evolution of MSG presets in Studio Artist 4.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

New MSG Experiments


These were generated via directed evolution of MSG presets in Studio Artist 4.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Gallery Show Tests


These two images randomly popped out while doing some testing of the new Studio Artist 4 Gallery Show features. Some of the gallery show techniques let you randomly mutate the presets used in the show which was the case for these 2 images.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Lord of the Finance


Photo Mosaic created using a graffiti movie brush in the paint synthesizer, followed by some interactive warp operations.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Bluxom Series3


Some symmetry variations created using the Bluxom graffiti photo mosaic technique i've been discussing for the last few posts.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Bluxom Series2


More images from my new photo mosaic experiments. These were all created using the Studio Artist paint synthesizer with a graffiti movie brush. The bottom one was created from a live video shot off of an internal iSight camera.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Bluxom Series1


I've been exploring new ways to work with photo mosaic style imagery in Studio Artist. This series was generated with graffiti databases where the graffiti images are randomly chosen and then colorized to match the sub area they are positioned in. The vectorizer outline technique is used to insert a stylized source outline into the image. I really like the look of these, the stylized vectorizer output almost appears to be part of the graffiti itself. Very different feel than a conventional photo mosiac image.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Tacolicous


Yes the tacolicous truck is 'da bomb'. I'm debating whether to try it since it's right next to the curry truck that put me down for a week with food poisoning. Subsection of a scan tracker video panorama. The shot below was taken walking around the side of the truck.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Pacific Sun


This was taken in Honolulu harbor near the fish market. It started with a Flip video pan that was then converted into a static panorama image with the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Boat Scan


I've been moving back to working with a complete frame slit scan recently after avoiding it for a long period of time. This started with Flip video taken out the side window of the car while driving next to the water near Honolulu chinatown.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Interior View


This is a shot of the interior of 'Ship to Hawaii' from a single Flip video frame. It doesn't really do justice to the large assortment of crazy stuff hanging on the walls. I used the smart contrast ip op in Studio Artist followed by the flat region colorize ip op to generate the processing effect.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Industrial View


This was taken in front of 'Ship to Hawaii'. The usual Flip video pan followed by the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker to convert it into a static panorama.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Fatty's


More international marketplace imagery. This started with a 180 degree Flip video pan. Converted into a static panorama via the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Steak Rave or Steak Plate


Our westside journey continues. The market is the home of the fabulous Steak Rave, whihc really has to be seen to be believed. So this being a very small town, someone decides to open a Steak Plate joint right next store. Which will probably cause them both to go out of business. Image is the usual video sequence taken out the car window processed with the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker into a static panorama image.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Home of the Malassada


Continuing our west side journey. No stop in K Town is complete without a visit to Agnes Portuguese Bake Shop. Now with high speed internet access, ha,ha. The usual video sequence processed with the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker into a static panorama image.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

K Town Driveby


Continuing the movement down the windward coast. This was taken with a Flip video camera out the side window while driving, then converted into a panorama via the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker. There's some vectorizer output mixed into a second layer.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

W-Town Drive By 2


Another temporal panorama generated from a Flip video sequence taken while driving through Waimanalo. The panorama was then processed with the vectorizer in a second layer.

Friday, November 7, 2008

W-Town Drive By


This was generated from a Flip video sequence taken out the window while driving. The panorama was created using the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker. I then processed that with the Block Abstraction ip op in a second layer.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Waikiki Street View 2


Another 360 degree Flip video pan processed into a static panorama image via the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker. This was taken at the end of the Waikiki strip at the start of Kapiolani Park.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

360 Waikiki Street View


This was created with a 360 degree Flip video pan taken while walking through Waikiki that was then turned into a static panorama image using the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Waikiki Street View


Panorama created using the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker to process a 180 degree Flip video pan taken while walking through Waikiki. There's a very subtle amount of vectorizer processing added to this in a second layer.

Monday, November 3, 2008

International Marketplace Walkthrough 2


More processed video footage from inside the chaos of the International Marketplace in Waikiki. Experience it before it is gone forever. The video panorama was generated using the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

International Marketplace Walkthrough


This was generated from a video sequence taken while walking though the International Market Place in Waikiki. Probably my favorite place in Waikiki. Unfortunately not long for this world since they will soon tear it down to build more Gucci stores.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Waikiki Beach2


Another Waikiki Beach video pan converted into a static panorama image via the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker. That panorama image was then used as the source image to generate a photo mosaic via the paint synthesizer. A Waikiki movie brush was used to generate the photo mosaic. You need to zoom in to really see all the detail in these mosaic images.