VC | EP32 - Jascha Suess - The Whizzkid Of Live, Realtime, Generative And Immersive Visuals

Ep32 and we ain't never gonna stop!!! This week we got the mighty  @Jaschasuess  /Jascha Suess on the cast!!! Jascha is quite the legend and is currently involved in some major international shows, He tours and is the main Visual Artist for K&D (Kruder & Dorfmeister), he VJs for the absolutely massive Afterlife shows and he creates content and projection mapping for festivals like Frequency Festival. He also has a mad social media game where he consistnly shows his process imparting wisdom onto others as well as an active & inspiring discord server where artists of all levels can come to meet and interact! For Jascha's SET we get a peak and showcase of his impressive VJ tool built in TouchDesigner he uses for his shows and a sneak peak at an upcoming Volumetric LED show he is working on! Mr Suess is a sweet, extremely thoughtful and thoroughly inspiring dude, and i am super grateful for his time, his commitment to awe inspiring visulas is absolutely top notch and i massively commend him on it!! Check out Jaschas awesome socials & discord - https://www.jaschasuess.com/ https://www.instagram.com/jaschasuess/ https://www.tiktok.com/@jaschasuess https://discord.gg/fKxJpxQX Chapters - 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:12 Finding the calm and flow 00:09:59 Introduction to Mograph & VFX 00:16:40 Transition from Music to Media Technology 00:22:54 The Evolution of Subculture into Mainstream 00:28:26 Getting Started in the Creative Industry 00:34:00 Introduction to TouchDesigner and Real-time Data Processing 00:41:15 Real-time and Offline Rendering 00:47:50 Touring as a VJ with Afterlife 01:03:19 Being your own Art Director VS working in a team 01:09:35 Being approved and chosen by K&D 01:15:54 SET - Custom TouchDesigner VJ Patch 01:32:24 SET - Creating beautiful, procedural and controllable visuals 01:35:20 SET - Notch Blocks inside TouchDesigner 01:39:51 SET - User Interface and Controls Overview 01:50:12 SET - SneakPeak at Jaschas Volumetric LED rendering pipeline 01:55:20 The Ego and Anonymity in the VJ World 02:06:06 Navigating the Event Industry's Old Guard 02:10:19 Navigating Inner Conflicts and Artistry 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 a killer Touchdesigner VJ tool. 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 our Host - Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Follow our new Intern - Sophie Holder/PHI https://www.instagram.com/sophie_holder1 Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Jascha for coming on!

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