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The Visual Cast

The Visual Cast

Alon Hammer/REM

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Frequency: 1 episode/10d. Total Eps: 76

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The Visual Cast is A uniquely visual, recorded live, hybrid podcast! We interview visual artists of all kinds from all walks of life. Every guest does a "set", where they can share with us anything - it can be a live VJ set, a deep dive into a workflow or even a show and tell of an up and coming project!! Through the set we get to see the guest in a state of flow and comfort while we discuss, react and converse!
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VC | EP25 - Function Store / DƔniel MolnƔr - Tools for Noobs, Functions For Pros & Plugins For All

Season 1 Ā· Episode 25

mardi 17 septembre 2024 • Duration 03:05:24

For Episode 25 we have the great and powerful DĆ”niel MolnĆ”r aka Ā @FunctionStoreĀ  ! For those not familiar with Daniel, he is the developer of the extremely powerful Function store tools, a collection of Ā @TouchDesignerOfficialĀ  hacks and tools that help improve workflows as well as manipulate the default behavior of TD, a must have tool for any TD user. Dan is also a talented artist and musician and performs super inspiring audio/visual shows, go check out his most recent performance Sanity Check on his Youtube! In our convo, we get into Dans origins growing up in Hungary and studying Electrical Engineering , being a music nerd from a young age, getting into programing and consumer electronics, moving to Berlin during the pandemic and being introduced and engrossed in TouchDesigner , him starting to develop tools for touchdesigner and how it felt to be invited and honored with an insession invite by derivative, solving problems through supporting and developing tools , what it means to be an audiovisual artist , the nature of the universe being random, but is it random? Lastly we dive into the function master's involvement with Ā @ledpulse-technologiesĀ  a volumetric LED module, we also take a look at the software Daniel built for it. For Dan’s SET, we jump into his unbelievable touchdesigner projects, starting with a suite of his tools made for making mind blowing visuals, including the ComplexOP and its many use cases, The layer separator and its extremely useful exploding ability as well as the complexFractal and its fractal exploring ability. We then jump into FNS and explore the functionStore toolkit and its amazing functionality. I love Daniel and his mind is fascinating to explore. After recording this episode I was instantly a Fumctionstore Tool convert and haven't looked back since, so go download it now. *Unfortunately the first half of the podcast got a bit messed up, thankfully there was a backup, the audio and visual is still intact but the bells and whistles aren’t on display until the SET portion where things pick up! Check out Daniels channels, his Patreon, his music and all the links BELOW- https://www.patreon.com/function_store/posts https://www.youtube.com/@FunctionStore https://www.instagram.com/function.str/ https://www.functionstore.xyz/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/3S5SlH4EwJDYgMOr3i26Rf?si=pTT4TkGqTNe7RXFpurJZ8A FunctionStore Tools - https://github.com/function-store/FunctionStore_tools Sanity Check Audio/Visual Experince - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIB1Ew7who4 LEDPulse - https://www.ledpulse.com/ Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:17 - Customizing the Touch Designer Interface 00:15:42 - Origins of Musical Inspiration 00:23:39 - From Music to Code: Finding Creative Expression 00:31:14 - Discovering Touch Designer through Visuals 00:39:09 - Learning from Other Artists 00:46:47 - Reflections on Life and Growth 00:54:33 - Workshop Experience and "Greg the GOD" 01:02:16 - Frustration and Motivation for Developing Tools 01:12:30 - SET - Tools & Techniques/ComplexOP 01:22:00 - SET - Tools & Techniques/LayerSeprator 01:36:26 - SET - Tools & Techniques/Instanced Trails 1:40:10 - SET - Tools & Techniques/Fractal Generator 01:43:38 - SET - FNS/Intro to Function Store Tools 02:00:00 - SET - FNS/Making TD more Efficient 02:07:28 - SET - FNS/Searching for Operators in Tools 02:15:53 - SET - FNS/Organizing Python Code with Extensions 02:31:45 - Unique Position as a Musician and Audio Visual Artist 02:39:37 - LEDPulse 02:45:20 - LEDPulse community patch overview 02:56:34 - The Philosophy of Data Input and Expression The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at FunctionStore Tools and amazing TouchDesigner workflows. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Daniel for coming on!

VC | EP24 - Jack Hurley/Anti Alias - Smoothing Out The Jagged Lines Of Realtime Workflows With AAVJ

Season 1 Ā· Episode 24

lundi 16 septembre 2024 • Duration 02:40:09

For Episode 24 we are back with a bang. and for our guest this week we have the stunning and powerful Jack Hurley AKA AntiAlias Jack is a well known and high level visual artist, playing for the likes of tipper & visual directing the pretty lights tour, he is really killing it, he also develops a tool called AAVJ, for those who don't know AAVJ is an extremely powerful and versatile application built in TouchDesigner for VJing and visual performance, We get into Jacks origins in fine arts and his early musical endeavors , having huge support to pursue arts from the people around him , getting integrated into the Tipper family and quitting his job to be a full time artist , getting into 3D design , diving into the validity of AI as a tool for expansion , falling, as we all do, in love with TouchDesigner and the sometimes high learning curve of the best software ever made, learning TD from tutorials and the many online mentors, why he decided to make AAVJ and release it for free , working on one of the coolest audio/visual tours around with pretty lights , educating people on NFTs and blockchain technology and the misunderstandings around it, being inspired and collaborating with other artists and how empowering it is!! For Jack's SET, we take a super deep look at AAVJ and the new features coming soon , Mr. AA also shows us a few of his signature looks and some insanely useful tidbits and workflows on how they are made. This convo with Jack was super powerful and informative, jack has such great vibes and is so sharing and open with his life and his techniques, thank you so much for coming on jack! Check out AAVJ - https://discord.gg/py5FFqQq7G https://www.anti-alias.xyz/portfolio/aavj Check out Jacks amazing channels - https://www.anti-alias.xyz/ https://www.instagram.com/anti_alias_/ https://www.facebook.com/antialiasvisuals/ https://x.com/anti_alias_ (chapters coming soon...) The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at AAVJ in TouchDesighner. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Jack for coming on!

VC | EP15 - Catmac/Marcos Fernandez - The Cats Pajamas Of Noise, Loops & Resolume

Season 1 Ā· Episode 15

jeudi 13 juin 2024 • Duration 01:58:11

Episode 15, is with an insanely special guest, Ā @CatmacĀ  / Marcos Fernandez a true legend! CATMAC is one of the OG Loop pack creators, a old school VJ and a leading force in the visuals world. His recognizable resolume visual packs has inspired an entire generation of VJs. And he has released over 500 clips for free on vimeo! With over two decades of motion graphics and immersive media it was a real pleasure and honor to have him on the cast! For Marcos's SET he dives into his unique generative Ā @ResolumeVJSoftwareĀ  set up and then jumps into his he creates insanely detailed dispatched noise in Ā @BlenderOfficialĀ  !!! Check out the amazing CATMAC online - https://www.catmac.art/ https://vimeo.com/user2777466 https://www.facebook.com/catmacvisuals/ https://www.instagram.com/catmac_visuals
Chapters: 00:00:00 - intro

06:59:00 - From Researcher to Artist

00:14:50 - Discovering a Passion for Drawing

00:22:29 - Shifting to Digital Art

00:29:51 - Starting a Successful VJ Career

00:37:05 - Nature and Mathematics in Art

00:43:57 - Transitioning to 3D Modeling

00:51:19 - The Progression of Modeling Skills

00:58:04 - 3D & Real-Time Software

01:04:16 - SET - Generative Effects in Resolume

01:33:08 - SET - Exploring Displacement Techniques in Blender

01:43:58 - The Psychology of Being a VJ

01:51:00 - The Joy and Challenges of VJing The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, were we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", a interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a breakdown of generative visuals in Resolume. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next weeks guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Marcos for coming on!

VC | EP14 - Sharat Aithal\Binary Fragmentation , The MagicMan Of Unified Real Time Visuals

Season 1 Ā· Episode 14

samedi 1 juin 2024 • Duration 02:30:58

We have arrived at Episode 14 and we have a super special guest - Sharat Aithal AKA Binary Fragmentation ( Ā @hotheadsaĀ  ) Sharat is a master game developer, a real-time guru and a super authentic artist. He’s worked on critically acclaimed games and played in massive festivals around the world. And he consistently performs, projection maps and creates realtime generative content at an extremely high level. We chat about Sharats life growing up in Saudia Arabia while retaining his Indian identity, playing prince of persia as a kid and going to study computer science in bangalore, his first job testing smackdown vs RAW on the PSP, developing a brand activation with interactive smells, working for Unity, getting deep into shaders and real-time visuals , getting inspired to use magic music visualizer by Ā @leandrosousavacaoĀ , after Sharats SET we jump into the ideology of computer science, spirituality, the contentedness in performing, growing up with hinduism and studying the babhta ghita , dancing and how the psytrance dance floor is a ceremony. For Sharats set, we take a look at his unbelievable Ā @unityĀ  patch and the way he uses it with mapping and an intro into his awesome Ā @MagicmusicvisualsĀ  patch. Check out Sharats socials for some trippy exciting content - https://www.facebook.com/b1nary.fragmentati10n https://www.instagram.com/binaryfragmentat10n/ (chapters coming soon...) The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, were we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", a interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a tour of Unity. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next weeks guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Sharat for coming on!

VC | EP13 - Lumi Khan/Double You , The Super Flowing , Light Eclipsing , Santa Claus Of Visuals

Season 1 Ā· Episode 13

mercredi 29 mai 2024 • Duration 02:39:49

e have an extremely special guest for episode 13 - one of the godfathers of modern day visuals @LumiKhan , formerly Martin Stebbing AKA Doubleyou! Lumi is the undeniable OG of high fidelity 3d generative visuals, headlining at the biggest festivals across the world and making content for some of the biggest brands and artists over the past 20+ years, he has been giving his state of the art visuals away for free in an open source vain for a decade and uploaded his entire library online a few years ago. He's an absolute force of nature and one of the nicest, kindest and most generous people I have ever met. In this insanely inspiring and authentic conversation, we get into Lumi's pursuit to be on the cutting edge and the inspirations throughout the years, from opening a visual studio at the advent of The berlin visuals scene and guerilla projections at the Bergheim, to being obsessed with rendering and cutting edge technology, we talk about the invention or discovery of Superflow together with Ian Clemer, simulations and the power of nature and organics, having his visuals be an inspiration for the killer show Devs, mocap magic and the beauty of motion and movement, having a life changing experience and changing his name and the extremely powerful notion of the Dark suck theory. For DoubleYou's set , we check out the super powerful Xenodream, and the way its used to make insanely cool looking fractal esque point clouds, and how to export them as 3d printing ready files. Check out Lumi’s socials for some trippy exciting content - https://www.lumikhan.com/https://vimeo.com/lumikhanĀ Ā /Ā lumiyoukhanĀ Ā  (chapters coming soon...) The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, were we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", a interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at Xenodream. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next weeks guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash Ā Ā /Ā mantismashĀ Ā  Follow the Cast Ā Ā /Ā thevisualcastĀ Ā Ā Ā /Ā thevisualcastĀ Ā  Follow Alon Hammer/REM Ā Ā /Ā remvisualartĀ Ā  Ā Ā /Ā remvisualartĀ Ā  https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Lumi for coming on!

VC | EP12 - Matthew Childers/Digital Introspect, A massive heart, A weird mind, A killer VJ

Season 1 Ā· Episode 12

dimanche 19 mai 2024 • Duration 03:03:14

We get weird for Episode 12 with the beautiful and hysterical Matthew Childers aka Ā @digitalintrospectĀ  Mathew is a force of nature, a completely unique visual artist with a heart of gold and a mind that is absolutely full of what i like to call weird shit, he tours with massive music acts, plays some of the biggest festivals in the country and makes award winning music videos. This episode was one of the funnest for me and i know you all will love it! We get pretty deep in this one, we talk about mathews wacky teenage years, his military service, his use of art as a healthy addiction, his insane hacking abilitys, his love of touchdesigner, building his own midi controllers, fatherhood and the pharmaceutical industrial complex - well that last one is on me.. For DIs set , we get an insanely fun audio/visual set with music made by Mathew himself, and then jump into his unique resolume project, we then take a look at how he made his award winning music video, with a dip into after effects, photoshop, comfy UI and midjourney. Check out Mathew’s socials for some trippy exciting content - https://digitalintrospect.com/ https://www.instagram.com/digital_introspect_visuals https://www.facebook.com/digitalintrospect https://www.tiktok.com/@digitalintrospect (chapters coming soon...) The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, were we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", a interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case an audio visual set and deep dive into resolume and AI workflows. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next weeks guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Matthew for coming on!

VC | EP11 - Jesse Yaun/PapaBear , Papa Breezy Making It Look Eazy

Season 1 Ā· Episode 11

dimanche 12 mai 2024 • Duration 02:17:53

Episode 11 is with the amazing and powerful Ā @papabearartsĀ  / AKA Jesse Yaun Jesse is just coming off of playing an absolutely outstanding set at Rendezvous in Suwannee Florida and he ain't slowing down!! Papa bear is an exceptional visual artist and plays at some of the biggest events in the country. He makes insanely cool clothes and swag and his style of abstract generative real-time visuals is close and dear to my heart. sitting down with him was a real pleasure. We talk about Jesses journey from inking and product/branding design to starting to do live painting at shows , he then took his art into after effects to mix it and discovered VJing and Visuals, we then chat about AAVJ and RayTK which run within the mighty Ā @TouchDesignerOfficialĀ  , we get into the emotional impact of abstract art and his goal of creating memorable moments for people. For papas SET, he blesses us with a killer audio visual set (with an amazing audio set by WIJ) , all real-time all generative, all running in TouchDesighner powered by AAVJ we then jump into how the bear makes his visual magic and get a look into his rayTK workflow. Check out Papa’s socials and don't miss out on his swag! https://www.instagram.com/papabeararts/ https://www.facebook.com/papabeararts https://society6.com/papabeardesign (chapters coming soon...) The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, were we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", a interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case an audio visual set and deep dive into TouchDesigner. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next weeks guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Jesse for coming on!

VC | EP10 - Shelby Harding/VJ Kobra , Front Of House is better then the VIP Section

Season 1 Ā· Episode 10

jeudi 9 mai 2024 • Duration 02:21:22

Episode 10/10 is with the amazing Shelby Harding / Ā @vjkobra5261Ā ! Shelby is a massive up and coming VJ, she did over 250 live streams during the pandemic and now plays massive festivals and tours with DJs! Besides for getting to know Shelby we get into some really important aspects of the challenges of being a vj and especially a women vj. We talk about growing up on a farm, getting into the party scene, teaching herself to VJ, visual experimentation, FOH IS HEAVEN, live streaming during the pandemic, vj education & Shelbys impressive tictok channel and getting out of your own way to manifest your reality. For Shelbys SET we dive into Shelbys process within Ā @ResolumeVJSoftwareĀ  , from an empty project to some killer generative looks and the awesome old school psychedelic aesthetic. Check out Shelby's socials and dont miss out on her tictok!! https://www.facebook.com/vjkobra.visuals https://www.instagram.com/vjkobra https://www.tiktok.com/@vjkobra vjkobra.com (chapters coming soon...) The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, were we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", a interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a empty to full project in Resolume. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next weeks guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Shelby for coming on!

VC | EP9 - Raimonds Jermaks/Symmetric Vision , Visual Replication with A Latvian Entity Whisperer

Season 1 Ā· Episode 9

mardi 30 avril 2024 • Duration 02:54:49

Episode 9 is upon us with Ā @SymmetricVisionĀ  AKA Raimonds Jermaks Straight from Latvia into your 3D dimension! Raimonds is a world class visual artist, his YouTube channel has millions of views, he specializes in visually recreating altered states & Entities and takers part in researching the science of visual replication, as well as VJing at massive European festivals!! Me & Symmetric talk about growing up in the middle of nowhere in Latvia, discovering altered states & psychedelics, taking his experience to a place of art and exploration, we get into VJing, Ā @MoDemFestivalOfficialĀ  & Ā @TASVisualsĀ , Raimonds viewpoints on ā€œSpiritualityā€ & ā€œReligionā€ , Higher subjectability and how knowledge is transferred. I cant stress enough how much information and insight Raimonds has, the conversation is fluid, electric & hysterical!!!! For Raimonds SET we jump into his Ā @ResolumeVJSoftwareĀ  project and a audio/visual mini-mix with music by Daksinamurti founder of Ā @SangomaRecordsĀ , We then jump into how the noodle is made and check out Raimonds After Effects and Blender workflows, it was a deep dive into the absolute insanity that is symmetric vision!!!!! Check out Raimonds website, his socials and he posts on his YouTube channel very frequently , and head on over to his Patreon for loops, tutorials and to support his research - https://www.symmetric-vision.xyz/ https://www.patreon.com/symmetricvision https://www.facebook.com/symmetryinvisioned https://www.instagram.com/inner.reflection/ https://www.youtube.com/c/SymmetricVision (chapters coming soon...) The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, were we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", a interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a audio/visual mini-mix & a look at creating psychedelic noodles. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next weeks guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Raimonds for coming on!

VC | EP8 - Matt Siegel/Sieg Mattel , Step aside David Blane, This guy knows Houdini

Season 1 Ā· Episode 8

dimanche 21 avril 2024 • Duration 02:49:15

The infinite episode 8 is here and we are joined by a great friend and amazingly talented Matt Siegel AKA Ā @siegmattelvisuals6160Ā  Matt is a sweetheart, a true creative and unique mind, it was amazing to see inside his workflows with the software Ā @houdini3dĀ , which is by far the hardest to learn but best VFX tool available. We get into what it was like growing up in Georgia, wanting to get into making visual art, starting out doing live streams during the pandemic, Working for Ā @adultswimĀ  and big VFX houses on major Hollywood films and theĀ @SilverLakeShortsĀ  film festival, among a lot of other topics! For Matts SET we dive deep into Houdini, we take a deep look at his awesome project for the online Ā @pwnisherĀ  challenge, Eternal Ascent. And an in depth look at his advanced vellum simulations, windows pipes screensaver and building procedural control rigs for characters. Go check out Matt and see some of his absolutely amazing art: https://www.instagram.com/siegmattel.visuals https://www.facebook.com/siegmattel.visuals https://www.siegmattelvisuals.com/ https://linktr.ee/siegmattel For anyone interested in trying out Houdini, here are some of Matt’s recommended resources: https://www.sidefx.com/products/houdini-apprentice/ – Houdini’s free apprentice version, great for learning and seeing if you like the software https://www.houdininerd.com – great resource for beginners from Chris Rutledge, has a list of a bunch of recommended series and resources https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgYcMX8FouyazK0L7jHzF6r_g8dSnJEX6 – Howdini101, a great free beginner series from Tim van Helsdingen https://tokeru.com/cgwiki/HoudiniGettingStarted.html – CGWiki by Matt Estela, an incredible website filled with tons of tips, project files, explanations, etc. https://mograph.thinkific.com/courses/stop-being-afraid-of-houdini-2 – Stop Being Afraid of Houdini by Mark Fancher, an incredible paid series that walks beginners through all that Houdini has to offer with a focus on using vfx for motion graphics https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdFfFRXT0K_gyA6VVBnYVDgAEGYeaJlKN – Houdini in Five Minutes by Entagma, great beginner overview of Houdini Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro

00:08:53 - Moving from Georgia to the West Coast

00:17:08 - Transitioning to 3D graphics

00:25:25 - Exploring Shaders

00:33:58 - Creating knowledge through Learning Techniques

00:42:01 - Community Events in Los Angeles - Silver lake Film Festival

00:50:23 - Vulcan vs. DirectX

00:59:14 - Professional Mindset and Motion Graphics Course

01:04:31 - SET - Eternal Accent project overlook in Houdini

01:15:55 - SET - Creating Volumes and Simulations

01:24:04 - SET - Manipulating Heads

01:32:31 - SET - Procedural Animation in Houdini

01:49:38 -SET - Customizing movement

01:57:56 - SET - Character Animation in Houdini

02:15:05 -SET - Procedural Weight Generation and Rigging in Houdini

02:23:42 -SET - Custom Rigging Techniques

02:32:13 - The Importance of Community in Animation and Motion Graphics

02:40:31 - Working with Existing IP and Maintaining Creative Direction The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, were we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", a interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at an amazing 3d dcc software. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next weeks guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Matt for coming on!


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