VC | EP24 - Jack Hurley/Anti Alias - Smoothing Out The Jagged Lines Of Realtime Workflows With AAVJ
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 -
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https://www.anti-alias.xyz/portfolio/...
Check out Jacks amazing channels -
https://www.anti-alias.xyz/
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/ antialiasvisuals
https://x.com/anti_alias_
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:03:35 Touring at a high level
00:07:48 Journey into Fine Arts and Art History
00:15:58 Making the Leap: From Corporate to Creative
00:24:05 Challenges and Opportunities for Emerging Artists
00:32:03 Connecting with Datagrama in Richmond
00:39:41 The Evolution and Ethics of AI Technology
00:47:14 Exploring the Role of AI in Art Creation
00:54:57 TouchDesigner as a Creative Hub
01:02:57 Evolution of AAVJ
01:08:12 SET - Intro to AAVJ inside TouchDesigner
01:11:00 SET - Optimizing VRAM Management
01:18:54 SET - The Effects Parameters
01:27:17 SET - Setting up a Scene & Effect for AAVJ
01:44:02 SET - Leveraging Touch Engine for Optimization
01:53:35 SET - Diving into The Wave AA scene
01:57:50 SET - Diving into Metal fluid AA scene
02:00:00 SET - The Benefits of SDF
02:05:48 SET - Diving into a 2D AA scene
02:08:05 Behind the scenes of Pretty Lights
02:16:13 Building a Strong Front of House Team
02:24:08 NFTs: Revolutionizing Digital Ownership
02:32:08 Collaborative Nature of the VJ Industry
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.
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Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Jack for coming on!