waiting room

Panorama generated with the scan tracker from a video pan.

Imperial Plate

Lunch at Bali via Scan Tracker Video Pan.

Shell Intersection

Temporal difference matte of video sequence taken in car while driving.

motion from static shots

I've been playing around with some ideas to generate motion effects from static photos.

pizza town

Video panorama created in Studio Artist's Scan Tracker with a 360 degree video pan while once again getting pizza slices to go for dinner.

WMF Headquarters

The secret location of the WMF studio complex is revealed in this panorama generated from a 360 degree video pan with the Studio Artist Scan Tracker temporal ip op.

Pizza Again

Scan tracker setup to stutter the image when processing a video sequence.

truckScan

Video panorama taken while driving, created in studio artist using temporal ip ops. I made a movie source brush from the individual video frames in the pan and used the paint synthesizer to re-paint the panorama with that movie brush. This added some fractal self-similarity to the final image.

Waikiki Homeless Camp

View from the homeless camp in Kapiolani Park at the Diamond Head end of Waikiki. Art History buffs may appreciate the Manet reference. I used the Line Screen Regionize ip op in Studio Artist to do the processing.

Welcome to Happy Island Music

Welcome to the Happy Island Music blog. Happy Island Music is actually the name of WMF's label. However, most of the posts here will be personal artwork as opposed to music posts. I post artwork to a variety of different places, so this will be a repository for stuff that doesn't get posted to the main studio artist user forum at studioartist.ning.com.

My name is John Dalton and in addition to playing bass in the Honolulu band WMF i'm also the creator of the award winning graphics program Studio Artist. So as you might guess, the artwork posted here was created in Studio Artist or it's companion program MSG Evolver. Studio Artist is distributed by Synthetik Software, the main Synthetik web site is www.synthetik.com. Studio Artist news is posted at studioartist.blogspot.com. All of my various blog and artwork posts are aggregated at studioartist.tumblr.com, so that's a good place to RSS or check out on a regular basis if you want to get a single feed for everything i'm up to.

In a previous life i was one of the founders of the San Francisco digital audio company OSC, which created the first multi track audio and midi software for the mac called Deck, as well as the original ProTools and Avid audio engines.

For more on the band WMF you can check out www.myspace.com/wmfrocks.