A curated list of awesome things related to vjing and visual works.
This section contains various resources on learning to create and generate visuals.
- The Book of Shaders
- After Effects tutorials by Adobe
- Max (Jitter/Vizzie) Documentation and tutorials by Cycling '74
- Inigo Quilez's website
- Respect Your VJ
- Delicious Max Tutorials by dude837 (Contains Jitter tutorials)
- Amazing Max Stuff (Contains Jitter tutorials)
- Resolume official training
- Dephased Discord server VJing and visuals-focused Discord server
- Le Collagiste (FR) French blog dedicated to vjing
- Scanlines Great forum for visualists
- ShaderToy Shader/GLSL focused community website with embedded shader editioh/viewer
- r/vjing Subreddit dedicated to VJing
- Sean Bowes Youtube channel Great tutorials and VJing industry insights
This section contains various software, programming languages and frameworks to create, generate or control visuals.
- Blender (Windows/Mac/Linux) (Free/Open Source)
- DaVinci Resolve (Windows/Mac/Linux) (Free/Commercial)
- Cavalry (Windows/Mac) (Free/Commercial)
- Adobe After Effects (Windows/Mac) (Commercial)
- Resolume (Avenue & Arena) (Windows/Mac) (Commercial)
- VDMX (Mac) (Commercial)
- Modul8 (Mac) (Commercial)
- Arkaos Grand VJ (Windows/Mac) (Commercial)
- CoGe VJ (Mac) (Commercial)
- Synesthesia (Windows/Mac) (Free/Commercial)
- Millumin (Mac) (Commercial)
- Lumen (Mac) (Commercial)
- Quantum VJ HD (Windows/Linux/Mac/iOS/Android) (Free)
- Noisedeck (Web) (Free/Commercial)
- Analog Not Analog (openFrameworks) (Free/Open Source)
- GoVJ (iOS) (Free/Paid subscription)
- modV (Windows/Linux/Mac) (Free & Open Source)
- Magic Music Visuals (Windows/Mac) (Free & Paid)
- Notch Builder (Windows) (Commercial)
- ossia score (Multi-platform) (Free/Open Source)
- Max (Windows/Mac) (Commercial)
- Pure Data (Windows/Mac/Linux) (Free/Open Source)
- openFrameworks (Windows/Mac/Linux) (Free/Open Source)
- Processing (Windows/Mac/Linux) (Free/Open Source)
- vvvv (Windows) (Free/Commercial)
- TouchDesigner (Windows/Mac) (Free/Commercial)
- Hydra (Windows/Mac/Linux) (Free/Open Source)
- Cinder (Windows/Mac) (Free/Open Source)
- Nannou (Windows/Mac/Linux) (Free/Open Source)
- Improviz (Windows/Mac/Linux) (Free/Open Source)
- Bonzomatic (Windows) (Free/Open Source)
- TouchOSC (Commercial)
- Akai APC 40 Mk2 | Very useful for Resolume and other software, native Resolume layout
- Korg nanoKONTROL 2 | Small and has enough faders & knobs for controls, native Resolume layout
- Akai APC Mini Mk2 | Small and has enough pads and faders, native Resolume layout
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