damn that was some good guacamole (now with vj chat)

[exemplary citizen]

huh, Trogg?

y'all missed out on some good times in orange county, boy howdy

I remembered that director's name, finally - Guy Maddin. look that shit up.

[Meat Load]

will do

yeah it was rad. broin it up by the seaside, yknow

[exemplary citizen]

moose people should visit me more often. I wish we had a house or something where people could hang out proper-like, but maybe we can manage another get-together in l.a. somehow.

OH HAY, I fergot I have a bunch of after effects tutorials that I didn't lose in the crash. you want?

[Meat Load]

sure, zip em up and send em my way

[exemplary citizen]

hey, how come you're not on aim, bro

broham

broseph

[Meat Load]

oh rite V____V

[Mias]

ami what's your aim name?

[Retard Girl]

honestly id like to know too

[Meat Load]

it's this: ssjvaporeon

[Meat Load]

dude ami quartz is insane i can only figure out like a tiny bit of this

its awesome though i need to find out how to patch it to and from logic

[exemplary citizen]

yeah, it's pretty nuts. this guy has some compositions that you can pick apart and see how they work: http://www.zugakousaku.com/index.html?jp-qclab. and this other guy keeps a pretty decent log of tutorials on vimeo, and his links section is actually useful: http://www.hybridvisuals.nl/category/tutorials/

if you want to just really quickly hook it up to itunes or something to use audio triggering, <a href=http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower>soundflower</a> is great.

[exemplary citizen]

also, since this thread is becoming vjchat now, I have to namedrop <a href=http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/>center for visual music</a>. they are the repository for all that is good concerning abstract freakout visuals set to music

[Fistsetsfire]

I need to look at this more in depth later, but this is sweet. I wish they'd have screenings somewhere closer than NY, though.

[exemplary citizen]

hey, I'm making this thread a general link dump for quartz/vdmx/abstract stuff

bitchin' awesome newbie tutorials that get you up to speed fast - <a href=http://vimeo.com/430483>irishman's guide</a>

[Fistsetsfire]

I wish I had the discipline and patience - if not just the simple artistic talent - to learn something like this. I'd continue to watch more of these videos, but I don't see a point considering I don't have a clue about even the smallest stepping stone about the field itself. "It looks fucking cool", is all I can offer, and maybe a "holy shit I admire you" for good measure.

[exemplary citizen]

I wish I had the discipline and patience - if not just the simple artistic talent - to learn something like this.

pffff, as if I do. :P I am the hack to end all hacks.

just found this awesome directory of all the patches available with the Quartz public release - really helped sort things out for me regarding how to hook things up to controllers and whatnot: http://kineme.net/wiki/PublicPatchReference

[Fistsetsfire]

Riiiight, Ami. You're only one of the most artisticly talented people on the board. That doesn't count for anything, sure.

[Meat Load]

ami do you know much about vdmx and/or any good tutorials

i just kind of stumbled across it while doing a bunch of this stuff and it looks like it might come in handy

[Meat Load]

soundflower is rad i always saw it in logic as an output and i was like "wtf is this bullshit"
NOW I KNOW

[Young Jeff Bridges]

guacamole sucks

[KLEIN]

you don't know shit jon

[exemplary citizen]

haha, I sure am glad I started posting those links here, I just lost all my damn bookmarks

I know a little vdmx, but I can't get it to run reliably on my machine. I think I need to do some upgrading before it'll work properly. lemme see what I can dig up, I remember there being a really good stash of tutorial stuff on vimeo

vdmx is boss*, it's like it's made specifically for qc users. you can trigger quartz patches from right in the thing, then add video effects over it. you can make some crazy layered compositions with it. I wish I could get the damn thing working. :(

edit: except for the whole costing $300 part. still QC is free, so it kind of evens out to pretty cheap in the end

[Meat Load]

ive been fucking with it and i got it to do a bunch of cool things from itunes through soundflower.

ami i forget are you running leopard or tiger

[exemplary citizen]

gah, I'm so jealous.

yeah, I'm running Tiger, that's why it sucks so much. I need an upgrade

[Meat Load]

if you know anyone who has leopard borrow their disc, it comes with like 4 free installs or upgrades

[exemplary citizen]

oh snap, really? i'ma have to do that then.

[Young Jeff Bridges]

i want to be in your apple club

[exemplary citizen]

here, you can have my old one

http://i28.tinypic.com/15ezi4h.jpghttp://i26.tinypic.com/a0gaol.jpg

[Fistsetsfire]

I like the "this is real" caption.

[Young Jeff Bridges]

oh cool thx ami

[exemplary citizen]

okay I think I'm gonna give up on vdmx for the time being and start learning <a href=http://www.modul8.ch/>modul8</a>. seems roughly the same, looks like I can use quartz files direct through it too

[exemplary citizen]

huh, found a weird thing that ended up being kind of useful - there's this tutorial on how to do "god rays" for quick motion graphics in final cut, which can also use quartz directly for rendering. the final cut thing isn't particularly useful, but if you download the student files there's a whole folder full of quartz patches for doing backlit light rays

http://www.dvcreators.net/rayz-o-lite/

[exemplary citizen]

augh fuck, I hate modul8. I guess I really do have to go out and get leopard

[Meat Load]

lol i really want to install after effects but i need to finish torrenting house first

[exemplary citizen]

oh hey, that reminds me - don't use that SN that I gave you for CS3, it no work

after effects is my first love :o

[exemplary citizen]

yaaaaay it's bunny time

<a href=http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lt4ytojdjdw><img src=http://www.roomwithamoose.com/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=15080&stc=1&d=1251952740>
(click for making download)</a>

I tweaked with the "flying fish" script from Quartz Lab, which seems to be down at the moment :confused:

[exemplary citizen]

I'm trying to rig it now so that keyboard presses get me bursts of different colored bunnies instead of the even lfo interpolation i'm using (which you can see repeating)

[Meat Load]

i tweaked the image blur default one so the directional control was up down left right arrow keys, and then again so it made an automated circle using two lfos but i dont think thats interesting enough to upload

[Meat Load]

i love what you did with the flying fish one! i need to figure out getting images in there correctly. did you just export those bunnies as pngs with transparency to get that effect?

[retardedfaggot]

Soks.

[exemplary citizen]

yeah, the bunnies are just transparent pngs, same size and resolution as the flying fish, and I replaced the clouds with some photos of skies that I took in portland (looked softer). if you go into the image importer patch, there's a "load from file" thingy in the settings. only lets you overwrite what's in there already though, so I'd save a version before doing anything like that.