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!

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!

Episode 19 is here, and we have the melty wizard Alex Tman AKA @psybernautics5164 . Alex is a master developer, a generative magician and absolute banger of a VJ, harnessing the power of GLSL and shaders he has created some of the most iconic and wild looking scenes on the Synesthesia marketplace, he has performed with massive electronic music acts and played at massive festivals all around the US. we go into Alexs beginnings as a software engineer in the security sector, to getting blasted at bass shows and being introduced to Visuals by @zipvisuals8713 , falling in love with GLSL and discovering synesthesia, the power of generative real-time audio reactive visuals, self acceptance and self expression, coping with depression via coding and art and getting inspired from others being inspired!! For Alex's SET we get blessed with a heated real-time, generative audio/visual set with absolutely banging music by Mirage, Alex then shows us how he makes his visuals in GLSL within the powerful and super VJ friendly Synesthesia. For those not familiar @synesthesialive is one of the most advanced and powerful VJ software's out there, a real-time generative playground harnessing the power of GLSL in an easy to use and intuitive environment. This was the longest set we've done, and seeing Alex's scenes (available to purchase on the synth marketplace) at the code level was fascinating! It was a huge pleasure having Alex on and we had such a blast together!!! Check out Alex's shop for some heaters - https://www.psybernautics.art/shop https://www.instagram.com/psybernautics.art/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnJqX-7cHcGbI0--b03ke8w https://www.facebook.com/Psybernautics.art Check out Synesthesia, They have a free version and you wont be disappointed - https://synesthesia.live/#download https://linktr.ee/synesthesia.live https://www.instagram.com/synesthesia.live/ Check out Mirages music - https://miragesound.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/brady_mirage/ Chapters:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:30 - Introduction to Interactive Design & Development

00:24:59 - Getting into Shaders and Visuals

00:37:39 - The Joy of Creating Visuals

00:49:40 - Dealing with Phishing Emails

01:02:02 - Recognizing patterns in code

01:11:10 - SET - Intro To Synesthesia

01:17:39 - AUDIO/VISUAL SET - Music by Mirage

02:21:34 - SET - Under the hood of GLSL in Synesthesia

02:28:21 - SET - more GLSL, Mixing Hexagons and Boxes

02:41:58 - SET - Different Approaches to Visual Effects

02:55:55 - The Creative Process and Perfectionism

03:02:45 - The Power of Radical Self-Expression

03:20:53 - Finding Passion in Problem Solving and Coding 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 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 Alex for coming on!

Episode 18 is here, and we have one of my closest friends, the beautiful inside and out, Diego Maricio aka Prizma!! Diego is a true artist, ranging from motion graphics & 3D to photography to web design and even psytrance music production, in the past few years Diego has blasted onto the Visuals scene and taken up VJing and projection mapping, creating absolutely stunning visuals pulling from his native heritage, they invoke super light language and a pure authentic, healing experience. We chat about growing up in Bolivia and then moving to Sweden, his first introductions to art theater and motion graphic, living in the jungles of brazil making psytrance, meeting TAS in brazil before he was VJing, eventually going to modem and seeing him VJ, photographing and videoing events DJs and art exhibits, coming to Israel (where we met) and planting a seed that eventually bloomed into getting immersed in visuals and projection mapping, we go into zapotec and the language of these and other ancient native civilizations, studying and researching ancient peoples and bringing their art and culture into the digital realm, keeping them alive and introducing them to a broader audience. For Prizmas SET he shows us his killer Resolume set up, his powerful layering techniques with ancient patterns and how he makes them in photoshop and after effects and some 3d projection mapping content. Check out Diego’s socials for some trippy exciting content - https://prizmavisuals.com/ https://www.instagram.com/prizma_visuals/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5l4wyK7znD3DDSZrat6WwQ https://www.facebook.com/prizmavisuals Chapters:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:11 - Diego's Bolivian Origins

00:19:17 - Shifting from Music to 3D art

00:28:59 - Moving to Sweden & Discovering Design & Visuals

00:39:22 - Curiosity about VJing

00:48:25 - The Pursuit of Money is not Always Helpful

00:58:22 - Projection Mapping Course & Art as Communication

01:07:49 - Expressing yourself through art

01:13:23 - SET - Resolume set up

01:29:52 - SET - Using AI for Fast and Interesting Looks

01:43:19 - SET - Animation Techniques in After Effects and Illustrator

01:53:09 - SET - Exploring Different Art Styles and Cultures

02:03:55 - Ancient Knowledge and Advanced Technology

02:13:52 - Zapotec culture & Patterns

02:33:39 - The Nomadic Life 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 Resolume and the process of creating visuals. 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 Diego for coming on!