The Visual Cast | EP2 - Brandon Thompson/Sauce Monster , Bringing the Sauce

For Episode 2 of The Visual Cast we have the one and only Brandon Thompson AKA Sauce Monster , Brandon's "set", was a deep dive into his Unreal and Houdini workflow and the super awesome way he uses those tools!

Brandon is a OG VJ and all around multi disciplinary Visual Artist, he has toured as a VJ with Beats Antique  , did visuals on The most listened to podcast in the world Kill Tony  , has mapped some massive stages including The Sonic Bloom festival and created concert visuals and music videos for some of the biggest musicians in the world, including Smashing Pumpkins and Justin Bieber!!

We have an awesome conversation and go deep into Brandon's beginnings and family origins as military musicians, we praise the best software in the world TouchDesighner and procedural visual based scripting and discussed Virtual Production and working together on some massive projects!!

Check out the sauce and go give Brandon some social media love -

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

02:10 Exploring Visual Art & Music Integration

12:54 Growing Up in a Musical Family

26:11 Navigating Artistic Identity & Imposter Syndrome 32:58 Creative Projection Mapping in DJ Performances

37:09 Pixel maps, UV maps & Mapping techniques

48:51 Visuals in Performance Art

01:03:05 Touch Designer the best software ever

01:12:46 Learning Houdini & the insane learning curve

01:22:20 Good software's & Bad software's

01:31:32 SET - #unrealengine #houdini MSG Sphere & Procedural examples 02:07:50 Unexpected career paths, AI & Virtual Production Please like and subscribe and join us next week for another episode! Also follow us on social media (@thevisualcast) to find out who the next guest is! We also have an audio version on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!!

Enjoy Episode 2 of the Cast!!

The Visual Cast podcsat is a weekley, recorded live visual podcast, were 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", a 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 Procedural Realtime workflows.

Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Julius for coming on!

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