Episode 29 and we have an absolute legend and super honoring guest , Thomas Mann AKA @pixtur AKA the father of TOOLL.IO. For those who haven't been initiated, Tool is a powerful, FREE, node based, open source software for generating visual effects and motion graphics for installations, live performances, and VJing. It is easy to learn, yet incredibly powerful. Thomas is a world class developer & artist, finding his chops and notoriety in the Demo scene, he then became a super high in demand developer, working for such companies as Nokia among many others. Somewhere in the early 2000s Thomas Started Tooll, almost two decades later it is a fully fledged software with a striving community and handful of dedicated developers. He is also half of the Audio Visual project @wakeaudiovisual together with his wife Lena Kilkka, definitely check them out! For Pixtur’s SET he graciously performs an audio visual set, building it from scratch in front of our eyes. Accompanied by music from ‘the same’ , Thomas shows us the absolute power of Tooll and how intuitive, Fluid and fast it can be to create a beautiful and immersive A/V set on the fly. He then shows us into some outstanding workflows and some up and coming features. Thomas is a force of nature, extremely fascinating and an untapped faucet of inspiration, history and knowledge. I thoroughly enjoyed talking with him, and I know you will as well - and we have a new record for longest episode!!! Big Thank you to GRIG / VDMO / VJ UNION for connecting me and Thomas!! Download & Learn TOOLL now - https://tooll.io/ https://www.youtube.com/pixtur https://github.com/pixtur Check out WAKE - https://www.instagram.com/wakeaudiovisual/ https://wake-audiovisual.com/ Music by The Same - https://soundcloud.com/thesamepl https://www.facebook.com/thesamepl Grig/VDMO - https://vjun.io https://www.facebook.com/groups/vjunionglobal https://www.instagram.com/vdmokstati/ Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:35 The team behind TOOLL.IO 00:05:24 The Future of Generative Design 00:09:44 The Role of VJs in Modern Festivals 00:18:55 Impact of East Germany's Education Policies on Technology Careers 00:28:05 Reflecting on Post-Wall Berlin 00:37:00 The Impact of Demo Scene on Careers in Tech 00:49:00 The Shift from Demo Scene to VJing 00:56:38 The Appeal of Generative, Procedural & Learning Visual Scripting 01:05:28 Challenges of Monetizing Open-Source Projects 01:15:55 The WAKE A/V Project 01:23:14 SET - A/V TOOLL.IO Set with music by The Same 01:57:04 SET - Exploring TOOLL.IO 02:09:32 SET - Time, Keyframes & Animation in TOOLL.IO 02:19:13 SET - Exploring Variations Tool 02:30:29 SET - Projection Mapping & Imapp 2024 02:42:47 SET - Mesh Points, Buffer & Mograph 02:50:54 SET - Adding Shadows & 3D set ups 02:55:44 Building TOOLL.IO as an open ended environment 03:10:04 Embracing Skepticism and Optimism 03:20:06 Future of AI and Technology: Expectations vs. Reality 03:28:34 Exploring Patterns in Nature 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 an amazing software called Tooll.io. 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 Thomas for coming on!

Episode 28 is upon us and we have the amazing and POWERFUL @pao_olea , a super talented and big brain developer, Tech & Visual artist and VJ. Pao has worked on some amazing projects including massive interactive installations at major museums across her home country Chile and in many other cities across the globe , blasting visuals for Richie Hawtin’s exclusive project “Prada Extends Miami" and is currently the creative director of a record label called Our Silent Canvas. Her irreverent visual style echoes what we love on this podcast, the experimentation and exploration of generative and real-time art whilst maintaining unique and authentic expression. She is also a major figure in the @TouchDesignerOfficial world as a dual language educator, offering her expertise in tech and visual art on her Patreon in Spanish and English, which I think is absolutely amazing. For Paos SET she graciously shows us her unique VJ set up, takes us into some of her exclusive Patreon tutorials and even pokes around some older projects off of her Instagram. Its chock full of tidbits of information and absolute GOLD. It was super awesome talking and chatting with Pao, she has so much to impart and hearing her experiences and stories was inspiring to say the least. Check out Paos amazing Patreon and awesome socials - https://www.paoolea.com/ https://www.instagram.com/pao.olea/ https://www.patreon.com/pao_olea/posts (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 an amazing workflow 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 Pao for coming on!

For Episode 27 we have the wonderful and powerful and beautiful Imri Shavit / Lumos check out Imri's work:https://www.instagram.com/lumos.visualshttps://vimeo.com/showcase/9831285https://www.facebook.com/imrishavit/ 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 Tools in TouchDesigner. 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 Imri for coming on!

EP26 is here with the main man @actualizevisuals1027 / David Schunemann A true staple of our scene and one of the sweetest & nicest VJs I've ever met!! From projection mapping installations at your favourite festivals to high end custom content & live Visuals for massive acts to teaching up and coming VJs, Dave does it all and has been growing and achieving his dreams and goals for quite some time! It was such a pleasure talking shop with Dave and his insights on the business of VJing and behind the scenes of the scene was truly inspiring and eye opening. For Dave's set he graciously shows us into his world of @ResolumeVJSoftware !!! Check out Dave's Socials and take a lesson if you want to learn VJing - https://linktr.ee/Actualize https://www.instagram.com/actualizevisuals https://www.actualizevisuals.com/ https://www.actualizevisuals.com/lessons (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 Resolume 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 Dave for coming on!

For Episode 25 we have the great and powerful Dániel Molnár aka @FunctionStore ! For those not familiar with Daniel, he is the developer of the extremely powerful Function store tools, a collection of @TouchDesignerOfficial 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 @ledpulse-technologies 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!

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!

For Episode 23 we have a super exciting and honoring guest - Theron Pray , the founder of Synesthesia and a master Visual artist!!! For those not familiar, Synesthesia is an ultra-powerful VJ software, bringing the power of Shaders & GLSL to all, with tools, workflows and features that are second to none . In our chat with Theron we get into what its like creating tools that close the gap between technical and visual artists, growing up in LA & being fascinated by how the universe works, whcih lead to studying physics in Carlton college, playing music in a experimental tech band and creating custom software's out of a need to connect musicians to visuals, eventually turning it into Synesthesia and what it means to open and run a company, we get into diving down the rabbit hole of VJing, meeting and mixing in with @Datagrama , Theron then gives us his introduction to GLSL and we go deep into Augmented reality and his company AlphaChannel. For Theron’s SET, we take an up and close look at Synesthesia and some of its amazing features, we then check out Theron's unbelievable content from Boom festival and his killer workflow for projection mapping. Check out all things Theron and Synesthesia - https://synesthesia.live/ https://www.instagram.com/synesthesia.live/ https://www.instagram.com/theronpray/ https://www.alphachannel.io/ (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 Synesthesia and GLSL. 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 Theron for coming on!

For Episode 22 we are joined by a really exciting up and coming artist Beth Salapek aka Crystal Beth!! I was introduced to Beth from her RayTKApril challenge and was instantly impressed, her sense of motion, style and grasp of generative visuals is really impressive considering how new she is to this world. Having her fresh perspective and unjaded attitude towards the industry was super welcoming and inspiring. For Beth’s SET, we dive into Touchdesighner and RayTK and see how Beth approaches creating scenes. Follow and support Beth - https://www.patreon.com/CrystalBethArt/posts https://www.instagram.com/crystalbeth.art https://www.instagram.com/night.thrpy (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 Raytk within 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 Beth for coming on!