What can I do about the jaggies in Bliss Paint animations?
• The jaggies are due to rendering for color cycling. You can’t have true anti-aliased pixels in 256-color, especially when the colors are constantly changing with color cycling. There is a useful ‘scribbler’ in Bliss Paint, Smooth, that filters the image, and blends the edges; using it several times in sequence will give images a melted look, and the jaggies are transformed to smooth (but short) ramps or edges to shapes. The color flows through these edges in interesting ways. Another solution would be to record the Bliss QuickTime movie at double the final size and then scale it down for final output, which is sort of how anti-aliasing works. You could record Bliss to QuickTime and then use a blur filter in QuickTime Pro, Adobe Premiere or Final Cut to soften the edges or add other effects.
