This pack contains 1,963 VJ loops (12 GB)
Let's trace out some intricate patterns, like Tron bikes on caffeine. Definitely inspired by all those hours I spent jamming with the NestDrop "Drawing" presets. But the flooding simulation techniques that I know of are much too slow for creative experimentation and so I've been sitting on the idea for this VJ pack f...
2025-02-01 15:32:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 769 VJ loops (42 GB)
Do you dream of error prompts and system meltdowns? You've got a contagious case of BSOD nostalgia. Glitches define the age that we live in. But imagine doing a tech glitch fake out and allowing the audience to briefly believe that the show has crashed, only then to go full throttle and jam with the glitches to the mus...
2025-01-01 16:09:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 205 VJ loops (98 GB)
Fractal fever! Honestly I both love and hate fractals. I love them because they are fascinating, beautiful, and surprising. I hate them because they are a pain in the ass to work with and they are so heavy to render out. And yet I get to experiment with an infinite geometry. So it makes sense that animating exponential...
2024-12-01 15:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I love helping develop NestDrop into an expressive and experimental app for VJs. NestDrop is built around presets and so you can never have enough. Below are 2 preset packs for NestDrop!
Any time I'm feeling uninspired but still want to scratch that creative itch, I'll start up Winamp and create some preset mashups. Amazingly it still works perfectly ev...
2024-11-06 03:51:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 137 VJ loops (124 GB)
I love when I'm driving and see only a glimpse of some street art and being left with a feeling of surprised awe. So I keep trying to create my own warped version of graffiti and visualize what I've long imagined. So after many years of daydreaming and inching towards this point, I feel like I've arrived. This is an e...
2024-11-01 15:37:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 125 VJ loops (30 GB)
I've been wanting to revisit my love of nebulae. While working at the planetarium, my friend and coworker Wade Sylvester figured out how to use the fluid simulations in Maya to make some really beautiful nebulae. Some were realistic, others were abstract to the core, and his approach to making nebulae showed me what wa...
2024-10-02 15:55:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 141 VJ loops (78 GB)
Let's get psychedelic with some vintage liquid light show techniques! My aim was to capture footage that would allow VJs to layer up the videos and see new mixed colors by using the difference blend mode, possibly while using the "Hue Rotate" effect to automatically cycle through the color wheel. Mind melting fun!
This pack contains 125 VJ loops (21 GB)
Double double toil and trouble, VJs mix their visuals subtle! Years ago I saw a finger tutting performance and it's always stuck with me. So I've long wanted to collaborate with a performer and yet I've had trouble finding a collaborator. But then I stumbled across the gloving community and found some amazing performers...
2024-08-01 19:14:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 290 VJ loops (138 GB)
I think that cellular automata feels like a decomposing computer. Crumbling eroding collapsing data that is trying to escape entropy. Bleeding pixels.
Every so often I poke around Github and search for my favorite topics to see what obscure passion projects are around. Naturally I did a search for cellular automa...
2024-07-11 03:57:46 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 175 VJ loops (58 GB)
I'm still daydreaming of morphing chrome. Machines full of complexity. So shiny!
Lately I have been experimenting with the Teya Conceptor app which has been refreshing since it really feels like playing. Modeling has always been a slow process for me but Teya is perfect for quickly painting with pre-made models. I...
2024-06-01 14:28:44 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 1,341 VJ loops (6 GB)
I'm fascinated by motion capture rigs. So much nuance can be recorded and yet it also feels like a ghost in the machine. Bone appetit!
First I downloaded loads of different free mocap animations from Mixamo, 2024-05-01 16:15:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 35 VJ loops (18 GB)
I have an obsession with industrial robotic arms. Their movements are inhumanly fast and their shapes are unlike anything in nature. They are fascinating to watch and I always see it as a visual metaphor for the times we're living in. So naturally, I wanted to strap a subwoofer on it.
I hunted for a robotic arm mod...
2024-04-01 17:59:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 199 VJ loops (31 GB)
There's a glitch in the matrix! That movie really blew my mind when I was a teenager. So I wanted to explore the idea of the terminal window alive with code.
My initial idea was to screen capture a command prompt window doing something complex. I struggled to find something t...
2024-03-01 21:22:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 93 VJ loops (44 GB)
Strike a pose! A while back I stumbled across the StyleGAN-Human codebase and was starting to figure out how to get it running. But then I realized that the base tech was StyleGAN2/3 and that they had shared the...
2024-02-01 23:33:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 43 VJ loops (21 GB)
I’ve been blessed and cursed with visions of pizza. Pizza I tell you! Pizza flying like a bird. Pizza strapped to a rocket. Pizza UFO abducting people. Pizza with teeth. Pizza headbanging. Pizza with pepperoni doors. Pizza in a wormhole. I dream of pizza. I just can’t stop.
First I looked ...
2024-01-01 19:18:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 174 VJ loops (25 GB)
Masks are so useful for bright visuals that you want to tone down so that the environment can be more dynamic. Masks are also useful as dazzling patterns for LED strips. So it's two birds with one stone. For the last few months I've been brewing on techniques that would create some interesting mask...
2023-12-01 23:30:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 40 VJ loops (105 GB)
OMG 3D fractals! For a few years I've been drooling over the Vectron plugin for creating 3D fractals. But since I'm primarily a Maya/Redshift and Blender user, the thought of diving into Cinema 4D and Octane just for this tool wasn't altogether enticing. But then they released 2023-11-01 12:29:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Helping develop NestDrop has been rewarding and given me insight of how VJ's want to push the limits these days. It's amazing to see how VJ's are using it in different ways while performing live.
I realized that there are a bunch of useful resources for NestDrop but they are scattered around the web. So below I'm bringing everything together under one roof.
Here are s...
2023-10-26 04:29:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 50 VJ loops (81 GB)
Call up Frankenstein! Build your own face. Each of the videos in this pack include an alpha channel so you can collage the eyes, ears, mouth, security camera, and brain together to create the weirdest faces you can imagine. The only videos that don't include alpha are the laser videos since they look so m...
2023-10-01 18:11:30 +0000 UTC View PostI'm always writing down crazy ideas for visuals as they come to me. So I have a backlog of ideas and I could use your help selecting the juiciest ones.
Would you mind taking a one question survey?
2023-09-05 04:29:24 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 192 VJ loops (126 GB)
Shiny polished metal is seemingly anathema to mother nature, which is why it symbolizes digital tech so well.
Recently the ZeroScopeV2 models were released. After some poking around I was able to get it working in A1111 using the 'txt2video' extension. First I experimented with the recommended app...
2023-09-01 12:52:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 78 VJ loops (61 GB)
The robots aren't coming, they're already here in our pockets. The machine learning revolution has only just begun.
I've long wanted to visualize a robot that is shaped like a chimpanzee. So for the "Chimpanzee" scenes I nailed down an accurate text prompt in Stable Diffusion v1.5, loaded up x2 inst...
2023-08-01 12:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 83 VJ loops (71 GB)
The AI software is here and maturing quickly. And I think having it control all sorts of robot hardware is just around the corner. Things gonna get weirder.
I finally made the jump to using the A1111 Stable Diffusion web UI and it renders images so much faster thanks to the xFormers library being co...
2023-07-01 17:04:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 61 VJ loops (18 GB)
Looking at a field of galaxies fills me with awe. The indescribable distances, the vast proportions, the possibilities of life, the infinite questions, the universe is a time machine. And so I thought it was high time that I revisit my roots seeing as how I have experience as a Science Visualizer from whe...
2023-06-01 13:41:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This pack contains 99 VJ loops (95 GB)
Graffiti is alive. I've been dreaming up some techniques to create an enhanced version of my graffiti animations using my more mature understanding of StyleGAN2. But to do that I needed a larger dataset of graffiti images so that I wouldn't continue running into overfitting issues. At first I tried just u...
2023-05-01 12:16:38 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 136 VJ loops (122 GB)
Let's have an AI fantasize about the most popular parts of the human body... Feeling uncanny glitchy? Probably NSFW-ish.
Looking back it's clear just how much I've learned about how to train StyleGAN2/3 since I've trained 10 different models in one month for this pack. It's been so useful being ...
2023-04-02 05:41:37 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 52 VJ loops (40 GB)
We are aliens riding on this strange spaceship earth. But let's visualize some real aliens, eh?
For the "Wrinkled" scenes, I was able to create a SD text prompt that would reliably output images of a wrinkly alien in several varieties. But I wanted SD to only output bust portrait style shots, whic...
2023-03-01 17:40:32 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 113 VJ loops (114 GB)
I’ve had this daydream of watching an alien plant growing and mutating. So for the "Plants" scenes I wanted to train StyleGAN2 on a collection of images of different plants and see what happens. Yet I wanted a perfect black background. After some sleuthing, I realized that using photos of real plant...
2023-02-01 15:29:17 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 88 VJ loops (93 GB)
The mysterious guts of AI. What happens to a neural network after it's been trained? GAN's have multiple hidden layers but we only see the final result. So I wanted to crack it open and experiment.
I was exploring the StyleGAN3 interactive visualization tool and was curious to see the intern...
2023-01-01 20:38:39 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 89 VJ loops (70 GB)
Surprise pack for New Year's! What strange warnings and errors will we see in the future? What tech will surround us? Always glitches.
With the rise of everything digital, I've been thinking of how to visualize an intense barrage of surreal computer errors and overcooked modern ramblings. So I put...
2022-12-17 04:59:47 +0000 UTC View Post