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!

For Episode 21 we have the AI aficionado, the master of the stream, Lyell Hintz AKA @dotsimulate !! Besides for being an exceptional artist and creative, Lyell is a killer developer, and the brain behind the amazing Stream Diffusion integration into @TouchDesignerOfficial , needless to say the topics covered are vast!! We get into Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania and moving to New York, Theater & Acting , Going to Berlin for the TouchDesigner meetup, Discovering Houdini, Discovering TouchDesigner, Discovering Coding, GPT inside of TouchDesigner, the future, dangers and excitements of AI, Generative visuals, optimizing Stream Difusion and developing tools for the community For Lylles SET, we go into his amazing Stream Diffusion tool and take a look at some new features he's been working on, we also take a look at his GPT tool that is super powerful and interesting. Talking to Lyell was extremely fun and informative, I really appreciate him coming on and am excited for what he is working on next! Don't miss out on DotSimualtes amazing Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/dotsimulate/posts https://www.instagram.com/dotsimulate https://www.youtube.com/@dotsimulate https://x.com/dotsimulate Chapters:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:47 - The Intersections of Art and Software Development

00:20:38 - The Power of Theater and Film

00:31:11 - Biking in Different Cities

00:41:38 - Malleability and Proceduralism in 3D design

00:51:59 - Simulated Worlds and Harvesting Happy People

01:02:31 - Bringing AI Models into Touch Designer

01:12:59 - Learning from the Community

01:23:28 - Negative Embeddings and Lightweight Models

01:34:14 - SET - GPT inside of TouchDesigner

01:45:13 - SET - StreamDiffusion TD - Updates on the latest tools and models

02:09:09 - SET - Controlling Model Parameters for Image Generation

02:20:14 - SET - Experimenting with Image Manipulation Techniques

02:32:35 - SET - Implementing Control Net, V2V and GPU ID

02:44:00 - SET - more GPT - Live Transcription using Python Manager

02:56:19 - Exploring Tool Development and TouchDesigner

03:07:10 - AI Empowerment for Artists

03:17:46 - Exploring Different Approaches to Learning TouchDesigner

03:27:43 - Embedding Space and Visuals in Touch Designer 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 Stream Diffusion 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 Lyell for coming on!

We have a very close friend of mine on the pod for episode 20!! An out of this world human Daniel Savinski / Naavi / @infimensions ! Na'avi is a master visual artist, designing spatial sculptures, dance floors & stages and frequency inspired visuals all over the world, hes a master at all he does, and infuses magic, love & light intention and high level technology into everything he does. It was such a pleasure having him on! We get into Daniels origins as a photography major and his journey from activism & documentary into art visuals & sculpting , darkness fasting, decompressing from work to avoid burn out, his introduction to the psychedelic trance scene and building his first installation at Ozora 2015, to falling in love with @TouchDesignerOfficial and the community and ideals behind it, from downloading ideas and concepts to fabricating and executing them, taking a retrospective look at Daniels absolutely amazing projects, the importance of light frequency and intention, how it feels to spend sometimes a year on a project to only experience or use it for a week at a festival & the concept of building something big over time or utilizing many small things to build something bigger, infusing intention & technology to making the world better, and teaching by example. For Naavis SET, we go deep into rhino and the mechanicians of designing the supernova stage for the @SpaceSafari , we then take a behind the scenes look at Daniels absolutely stunning Hyperflake project. Check out Daniel’s socials, he's got killer projects - https://naavi.vision/ https://www.infimensions.com/ https://www.instagram.com/naavi.vision https://www.facebook.com/naavi.vision https://www.instagram.com/infimensions/ https://www.instagram.com/spacesafari.be/ Chapters:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:10 - Early inspirations & Pursuing Architecture & Photography

00:20:36 - Exploring Different Dimensions

00:30:56 - Sensory Detox and Reflection on Health and Balance

00:41:01 - The Healing Power of Nature

00:51:34 - Exploring the Fourth Dimension with Photography

01:02:32 - Creating Light Installations

01:13:45 - The journey of creating visuals with TouchDesigner

01:27:14 - SET - Exploring The Supernova Stage in Rhino

01:35:28 - SET - Designing a Dance Floor

01:57:57 - SET - The Process of Creating Hyper Flake

02:20:57 - Creating a Safe Space for Dancefloor Experiences

02:31:11 - The Closing of a Festival and coming full circle

02:41:15 - The Future of Dance Floors: Infusing Technology and Psychology
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 deep dive into Rhino and the intricacy of stage design. 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 Naavi for coming on!