Animation bacground from "Kingsmill" commercial

feeds@yuku.com (michael hirsh) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:00:59 GMT

I was recently asked to do a painting for a commercial using real paints. It took me three days to re-organise the studio!
Painting with wet media ended up being so time consuming that I had to finish the painting in Satori (at 20 times the speed).

The picture was used in an ad for Kingsmill bread. The fence separated two gossiping hens.
The only part of the painting that...

Linux and Satori

feeds@yuku.com (Philip S) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:38:21 GMT

Seems the other topics about 'open source' are ancient and all the posters are probably dead and fossilised by now...

So why hasn't Satori been made open source and kicked out the door with a big name distro like Ubuntu or Red Hat or Fedora?

rant/
I can see that Satori has many advantages back in the day when computers were slow, but now everyone has a quad core beast with a few gigs of ram and Photoshop flies along. The only advantage is the way Satori...

Hello!

feeds@yuku.com (Philip S) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:10:42 GMT

Seems it's been 5 years or so since the last time someone posted on this section of the forum, but buoyed by the replies in this thread: Is Satori still alive? I thought I'd sign up and pop by to say hello.

So, um, Hello!

Thinking of Satori is a trip down memory lane. It's been a long time since I used Satori; about 5 years ago or more. It was the

Merry Christmas and all that!

feeds@yuku.com (peterwhitehead) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:53:51 GMT

To all those Satori stalwarts out there, a Merry Christmas (slightly belated, I'll admit) and a rewarding 2009. as ever Peter

Is Satori still alive?

feeds@yuku.com (DavidMacD) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:50:25 GMT

Everything I can find linking to Satori is pretty old now and trying to contact them through their web site gets no reply.

I have have a very early FilmFX 3.2 from years ago. Mark at Spaceward sent me a more up to date version (forget the version number) which I beta tested under XP. In 2003 this was lost when my PC exploded (literally) !

I decided to use the total write off of my PC and its contents to move to Mac. So Satori was consigned to the past. I am now running a...

Retouching with Satori

feeds@yuku.com (michael hirsh) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:16:14 GMT

Spotting out old photos really couldn't be easier than with the Satori colour sampling tool. The only tool used here was a 5 pixel airbrush and the eyedropper. (Remember to slide the eyedropper across either of the colour cubes and then scootch over to the colour you want to sample.)

Another Oldie

feeds@yuku.com (michael hirsh) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:49:19 GMT

"Owzat" by Aardman Animation

feeds@yuku.com (Satori Support) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:06:56 GMT

"Owzat" by Aardman Animation. Backgrounds, image maps and textures painted by John Parsons using Satori Film FX64.

Cavern Game Background

feeds@yuku.com (michael hirsh) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:30:18 GMT

A game background set in a bat infested cavern -

Detail -

The surface and edges of the water were treated very simply because there was FX animation on top.

I liked...

Mayan Jungle Games Background

feeds@yuku.com (michael hirsh) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:20:50 GMT

A Background for a computer game.

This was fun to paint. Detail view below -

All done in Satori FilmFX 64 v.3.71

Watercolours in Satori

feeds@yuku.com (michael hirsh) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:04:08 GMT

A very quickly painted small image that shows that vector painting software does not have to look like vectors.

This made use of the Patches brush, among others. Have a look at the detail crop below -

I'm sure there's more one could do to make it look...

Motown Themed Theatrical Backdrops

feeds@yuku.com (michael hirsh) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:47:15 GMT

Part of the Harlem Apollo used as a side panel on a stage set. About 15ft tall.
When brother James Brown died, his body was laid out in this theatre for the people of Harlem to pay their respects...

This next one is a backdrop based on the General Motors building in Detroit.
...

Townscape Theatrical Backdrop

feeds@yuku.com (michael hirsh) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:36:22 GMT

The layout sketch. Pencil on paper + Satori 3.71 Colour version next -

Detailed views -

Wabbit x 2

feeds@yuku.com (michael hirsh) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:19:54 GMT

And another view -

Aawwww!

Created entirely in Satori FilmFX 64 v. 3.71

West End themed Theatrical Backdrop Painting

feeds@yuku.com (michael hirsh) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:58:53 GMT

Photo montage of London locations overlaid with Satori paint using many custom brushes. All signs hand painted so as to yield high resolution scaling. Made entirely in Satori FilmFX 64 v.3.71, and printed out on a very wide format printer.

Hallowe'en Theatrical Backdrop Painting

feeds@yuku.com (michael hirsh) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:49:39 GMT

Hallowe'en themed theatrical backdrop painting. Painted entirely in Satori Film FX64 v.3.71. About 32 ft across. Printed on very wide format printer.

Pantomime Theatrical Backdrop

feeds@yuku.com (michael hirsh) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:40:53 GMT

A backdrop for a theatrical stage set. Produced entirely with Satori 3.71. Output size 32ft across, printed on very wide format (5m) printer

Video upRezzing

feeds@yuku.com (Don X) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:32:41 GMT

I just got an email inviting me over to this forum. Hi, to all.
Maybe it is very timely because I just switched my video camera and editing software over to HDV which is 1080px x 1440px and that leaves me with a vast library of stock footage at 720px x 480px. Some of which I may choose to uprez and crop to fit the new Big Screen. It's a good reminder for me to go back and use Satori. I have been ignoring it's skills for too long. I'm sure the pic quality will be great for...

Dual Monitors and Satori

feeds@yuku.com (peterwhitehead) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:11:51 GMT

Wow, it feels quite strange to actually post a question on this board after so long, but here goes!! Yesterday, I decided to drag myself into 2008 by setting up a dual monitor setup under XP using my newish Radeon X1550 512MB card. Sadly, though, FilmFX isn't happy, and weirdly generates an offset problem with my Wacom, resulting in my painted strokes appearing maybe a couple of inches to the right of my cursor (19" CRT monitor).

To be honest, I suspect that such dual-monitor...