The new rules

Been working on the timing and energy levels of the listener. Ganja White Night makes it look good

Looking for a VJ / visual artist.

The vibe is dark, hypnotic, experimental, and cinematic, with cybertrance and hard music. Experience with live visuals, projection mapping, or Resolume is a plus.

If interested, drop your portfolio or DM. 🖤

Long ago, back when Resolume plugins were made in Flash, I came up with a little markup language for lyrics. You type the text and it shows a word per beat, _ is an empty beat, __ holds a word longer, and long words automatically stay up for more beats. Because it switches on the beat instead of a timeline, it works really well for rap and EDM:

Fear___
is the
mind killer____________________
_ _ _
Whoever said _
we're not _
supposed to get _
ECSTATIC?

The problem: writing those files by hand is slow, tedious work, so I only used it for short texts and Anthems in live sets (eat _ _ _ sleep _ _ _ rave _ _ _ repeat _ _ _). I have implementations in JavaScript, Touch-Designer but it mostly lived on as a Wire patch, with no proper font picker, because Wire doesn't has that.

So I rebuilt it as an FFGL plugin (yes, with help of Claude), and made it write the files itself:

• Automatic timing: give it an mp3 and the lyrics. It separates the vocals, listens to them with Whisper, and writes the timed lyrics for the whole song, snapped to the beat grid. No lyrics file? Whisper writes them too, with mixed results on the small models.
• All inside Resolume: a button installs the models, another processes the song, and then you pick it from a drop-down.
• Sync: link Position to Clip Position and it follows your song clip, scrubbing included. There are also Next Word, Previous Word and a timeline slider for nudging it live.
• Any font (.ttf/.otf), plus layouts (single word, line build, two lines, a square stack, a scrolling stack), In/Out animations, ticker and echo backgrounds, stroke, chromatic aberration and glitch.
• Source or Effect: run it as its own clip, or put it on a video and let the video fill the letters.

• Still plain text: if it gets a word wrong, open the file and fix it.

  Listen====== _ _ _ _ all== y'all,_it's a sabotage======== I== can't==== stand==== it,==== I=== know= you= planned== it

That’s the Sabotage output above; = holds a word one extra beat. It gets most of a song right on the first go. Fast rap and stacked vocals are the hardest.

It runs on Windows with Resolume 7+. It’s a paid plugin; details and the download are here: https://www.patreon.com/sense_visuals/posts/textfx-beat-for-172347682

The whole Sabotage video can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcouTm_XXB8

I've also tested with Rap God, by Eminem; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOKHcyK2xl8

^{And yes, for those who are wondering an earlier post was removed, for not using the right tags in the title, hope that is fixed now}

made using blender, after effects, and touchdesigner

Been having so much fun with circuit bending lately!!

Hello! Long time fan of projection mapping/vjing but have yet to really dive into a project myself. But my wedding will be in June of next year and the venue has given us access to 3 ceiling mounted projectors that I would love to utilize!

Little background about myself, I have some decent understanding of photoshop and similar software, and to a slightly lesser extent After effects. I don't currently have access to either software but have a pretty good Photoshop alternative i use. Im fairly technically/Engineering inclined so those kinds of concepts aren't lost on me. Here's some relevant info I have.

Venue: It's a studio style space all the walls are effectively giant solid white screens, with the walls sloping gently into the floors (no hard angles at the floor level). The projectors are lined up to face one full wall, this wall is what we plan on having as our backdrop for the ceremony. We do not have the ability to move their locations just rotate them, although they are positioned in a way that they could be used as one giant 48:9 aspect ratio screen.

Equipment: I'm not entirely sure of the model of projectors being used currently but all at least have 1080p resolution. Anything higher isn't really needed for our purpose anyways. The contrast is decent enough for most things to be very visible even with the rest of the room lit up. My PC is a 2022 15inch Razer Blade laptop, 2040 nvdia, 16gb ram (i can provide more details if needed). The laptop has 2 USB c ports and an hdmi port.

Theme: My husband and I are pretty big fantasy/gaming nerds, so we are going to be dressed as 2 kings, (our invitations are custom made MTG proxies). We're going for a fantasy/sci-fi crossover vibe. And my idea for the artwork is to have some type of vinework and trees that make 3 separate portals, ideally the portals and trees will be "cut outs" with the background effectively being blank. I want it to look less like a giant screen and more like a music festival stage/play. The middle portal will most likely be simple portal animation on loop (think Rick and Morty or Stargate), and the two side portals will be slideshows showcasing us and our family+friends.

I plan on doing it as one giant looping video in the 48:9 aspect ratio and doing extended desktop, but if there is a better way to go about it I'm all ears! Actually any problems you forsee or ideas you wanna throw my way please do! Thanks in advanced everyone!

In this set, I wanted to create tension by combining the dark and disturbing with the attractive and sensual.

Seven original VJ loops are combined with effects, trimming, random playback and more to create an extensive Resolume deck.

I even created calm and active versions for most of the columns, making it easier to visualize the drop. Mix between columns and layers to build a flowing mix that stays on-theme.

Let me know what you think!

Motion graphic jobs for a/v companies, do they exist?

Im a skilled video/ projection artist, my work is mainly personal and experimental projects that I do in a fine art context. My work usually “wows” people , but it doesn’t pay much.

I’d like to think there’s a world where I could be hired by local a/v production companies to design motion graphics/ projection mapping for their clients. I live in a city that has lots of conventions and big corporate events, so there are quite a few of the these a/v companies.

What I want to know, do these types of jobs exist? Who does the designing usually for projected motion graphics at events?

A few things-
I’m 100% happy with boring corporate work.

I’ve tried to shop myself around for this sort of thing, where I’d be using my own equipment, or renting it. But my projectors can’t compete with the professionals. And I found my budget would be drained by the cost of rental equipment. So I want to work with an a/v company that has their own gear.

Every frame drawn by hand.

👻 Halloween Loops here: https://animatedloop.com/collections/halloween-loops

Free for testers. sign up for the beta for android phones

Please pardon the slop, maybe this free tool is helpful to someone else.

For adapting 2d content to a full dome show I was looking for a simple tool to move some layers around, simulate the view and create a live dome master. Blendy Dome VJ appears abandoned and i couldn’t find something similar that supports Syphon input.

Dome Sim allows you to input images, videos, syphon or (virtual and real) cameras, move them around a virtual dome and get a feel how the content may behave. It can output the full dome master via syphon or to a dedicated monitor/output.

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They wrote an article with predictions 4 years ago, here's how they panned out.

And some predictions for the next 4 years

Just dropped my latest single — tap in, vibe with it, and let me know what you think!🖤

Like and Subscribe if you like it 🙏

With love,
Alex

https://youtu.be/dPX7GblwpXU?is=mdLzRA5o_w-vaaOn

Hey r/vjing,

Aitor (Blub VJ) and I (Subtiv) played visuals on the Boiler Room stage at Pukkelpop in Kiewit, Belgium, on 22–23 August. We are allowed to share content from four sets between us: Mirage, Lauravioli, Casper Cox and FAISAL.

Pukkelpop shared their stage recordings with us, so we cut them into a short film. It's mostly the LED ceiling and screens over the whole tent, edited to Kangding Ray's "La Route". Having the ceiling above the crowd instead of one wall behind the DJ changes how you think about content, so I developed a lot of shaders.

Setup-wise, we both ran VDMX, and almost all of the content was ISF shaders rather than pre-rendered clips. Being generative made it easy to tweak and adapt live to each set and to the shape of the ceiling, instead of being locked into fixed footage; where we did use fixed footage, we used MadMapper for different duplication/mirroring setups.

Also, as you'll see in the video, the LED screens were crap; you had to stand directly under them and look up to have a "correct" view, which made it all the more challenging.

Credits

- Visuals (featured sets): Blub VJ (Aitor Biedma), Subtiv (Pieter Steyaert)

- Art director: Nele Fack

- Boiler Room 2026 VJ crew: Nele Fack, Tobias Rauch, Maarten Van Vooren, Thibault Dochy, Aitor Biedma, Pieter Steyaert (me)

- Stage design & lighting: Arf & Yes

- Footage: Pukkelpop

- Music: Kangding Ray x La Route

What do you think?

Link : https://blacqcgi.gumroad.com/l/saveyourselfvjloop

Hey everyone!

In keeping with the Halloween theme, Here's another free loop with layers so you can make custom edits with it

Make edits in After Effects or just use layers directly in Resolume Arena

BPM : 128

Format : DXV3 and Prores444

Use this in your live shows or anywhere you like // Do not resell

Released Under : Creative Commons

Hey everyone! I’m a solo developer making Desktop Rave, an VJ incremental desktop companion. It reacts to any music you play on the Windows, think Bongo Cat but reacting to the beat of your music.
After nearly one year of development, I just released a free demo on Steam, would love to gain some feedback from the community :)
Play the demo: Desktop Rave on Steam

AI Disclosure: No AI gen assets