A curated list of awesome things related to vjing and visual works.
THIS LIST HAS MOVED TO MY WEBSITE AND THIS REPOSITORY IS NOW ARCHIVED.
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
- Vjing WTF is it by David Lublin
- 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 editor/viewer
- r/vjing Subreddit dedicated to VJing
- Sean Bowes Youtube channel Great tutorials and VJing industry insights
- ISF.video shaders database Contains shaders made by the community
- VDMX Tutorials: A wide range of VDMX and VJ related tutorials.
- ProjectileObjects tutorials. Various hardware/software tutorials with VDMX, Madmapper, and QLab.
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)
- Pixel Composer (Windows/Mac) (Commercial)
- vvvv (Windows) (Free/Commercial)
- TouchDesigner (Windows/Mac) (Free/Commercial)
- Tooll3 (Windows) (Free/Open Source)
- Hydra (Windows/Mac/Linux) (Free/Open Source)
- Cinder (Windows/Mac) (Free/Open Source)
- Nannou (Windows/Mac/Linux) (Free/Open Source)
- Improviz (DEPRECATED) (Windows/Mac/Linux) (Free/Open Source)
- Bonzomatic (Windows) (Free/Open Source)
- TouchOSC (Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android)(Commercial)
- OSC Pilot (Windows/Mac/iOSWindows/Mac/iOS)(Commercial)
- Osculator (Mac)(Commercial)
- Vezer (Mac)(Commercial)
- Mitti (Mac)(Commercial)
- Syphon Virtual Camera (Mac)(Free)
- AVF Batch Exporter (Mac)(Free)
- ISF Editor (Windows/Mac)(Free)
- Project Milk Syphon (Mac)(Free)
- GifToSyphon (Mac)(Free)
- Black Syphon (Mac)(Free)
- NDI Syphon (Mac)(Free)
- OSCQuery Browser (Mac)(Free)
- OSCQuery Helper (Mac)(Free)
- MIDI OSCQuery Helper (Mac)(Free)
- WaveClock (Mac)(Commercial)
- Loopback (Mac)(Commercial)
- BlackHole (Mac)(Commercial)
- HapMap (Windows/Mac)(Commercial)
- MadMapper (Windows/Mac)(Commercial)
- Mapio (Windows/Mac)(Commercial)
- QLab (Mac)(Commercial)
- HeavyM (Windows/Mac)(Commercial)
- VPT 8 (Windows/Mac)(Free)
- 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
- Livid Instruments | Legendary, no longer in production.
- FaderFox | Unique and compact MIDI controllers.
- Special Waves | Modular MIDI Controllers.
- InTech Studio GRID | Modular MIDI Controllers.
- Hercules MIDI | Inexpensive controllers for a wide range of uses.
Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.