This artist is connecting Unreal, Ableton Live for production-grade visualizers

For all the ubiquity of Unreal Engine, a small handful of people are pushing the envelope of what Unreal can do as an audiovisual tool. With years of effects and animation production work under his belt, Zack Berwick is uniquely creative and inventive with the combo – and he’s sharing his approach, using Ableton Live, Max for Live, MIDI, OSC, and UE.

Metal on macOS excels at live visuals; try a free Gaussian splat tool

Developer Anton Marini, aka vade, is bringing back the legacy of Quartz Composer and proving Apple’s visual APIs are ready for real-time. Have a look—and watch what you can do with 3D Gaussian splats (if you know you know).

Peter Kirn - August 23, 2024

Cables, free browser visual patching, is now way more shiny and pointy and better

An interactive visual programming tool with patching right in the browser, Cables was already appealing. This month’s release adds shiny new features like – well, a feature for making things shiny and new.

Peter Kirn - February 18, 2022

NVIDIA’s Omniverse and Studio let you create 3D worlds together – and they’re free to use

Peter Kirn - January 4, 2022

Unity 2021.2 is full of artist-friendly stuff, from rendering to mobile face capture

Peter Kirn - November 4, 2021

TouchDesigner 099 does everything with live visuals – now on Mac, too

Peter Kirn - January 31, 2017

Creative Coding, Evolved: Processing Nears 2.0 Release With Hot-Looking Beta 9

Peter Kirn - May 21, 2013

Flying Lotus' Effects-Laden Latest, and the Equally-Entertaining Process Montage

Peter Kirn - December 4, 2012

Flying Lotus’ Effects-Laden Latest, and the Equally-Entertaining Process Montage

Peter Kirn - December 4, 2012

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