Great work. I checked out your concert visuals 2024 reel. There is definitely work out there for folks that are familiar with techniques such as datamosh and generative visuals. People are familiar with them, since they have seen them used before, but most folks don’t know how to wield them.
I’m not a business person, but have been involved in visuals for almost 20 years. I have done paid gigs that were one off things, but never anything long term.
I’m kind of a DIY/ad-hoc kind of person, so If I were to focus on such things full time, I would reach out directly to artists that I want to work with. Many of them already have folks in their network that handle concert visuals and music videos, but there’s often room for diversity. If you can make something they like, that’s all you need.
As an example, look at artists like Animal Collective/Avey Tare/Panda Bear… David Portner(Avey Tare)’s sister does a lot of their concert visuals and music videos. They also frequently work with visual artist Danny Perez. Still, they find ways to integrate other artists while maintaining their overall style.
The music video for Panda Bear’s Crosswords involved a small team, including a director and a VFX person that were neither Portner or Perez. The video (from 2015, coming up on a decade old next year) uses early generative models like DeepDream, which was out of the realm of most other visual artists at the time.
Hell, if you can find a younger group or artist that hasn’t established those kinds of relationships yet, you could be the in-house visuals person for a good chunk of their career.
DJs also could use visual accompaniment. Plus, sharing pay with a single DJ is often more lucrative than sharing with an entire band.
Another idea is visuals for events/festivals. I work in the legal cannabis industry, and psychedelic visuals are welcome most places.
That "Concert Visuals Showreel 2024" is bonkers, it seems similar to a demoscene piece but on even more crack and psychadelics. Intensely provocative, and easy to imagine it up on a huge screen.
OK, I checked it out too and I'm a little less impressed. I don't mean to knock the OP too hard, but I feel like I've been seeing the exact same "glitchy morphs in time to the music" for ever, like literally for decades.
Maybe that's just what people want and props to the creator for nailing the genre but I'd be way more interested in something actually unique and generated real time with the music. I feel like visualizers from the 2000s were more impressive - surely with all the progress in CPU/GPU we could be doing some truly epic visualizations these days...
it's absolutely nuts live especially at bass-heavy shows. a lot of the smaller guys have really good stuff, but Excision's visuals are the andromeda/farbrausch tier of VJ production imo:
Just for point of reference, there are a handful of AAA motion graphics studios that put together visuals for these tours -- for instance, IMMANENT did Excision's current Nexus Tour visuals. Really amazing shit.
A few years ago I was in the checkout line at Total Wine and to my complete surprise I realised Avey Tare was in line in front of me. I didn't say anything because I was too shy, but I'm a huge Animal Collective and Panda Bear fan.
I’m not a business person, but have been involved in visuals for almost 20 years. I have done paid gigs that were one off things, but never anything long term.
I’m kind of a DIY/ad-hoc kind of person, so If I were to focus on such things full time, I would reach out directly to artists that I want to work with. Many of them already have folks in their network that handle concert visuals and music videos, but there’s often room for diversity. If you can make something they like, that’s all you need.
As an example, look at artists like Animal Collective/Avey Tare/Panda Bear… David Portner(Avey Tare)’s sister does a lot of their concert visuals and music videos. They also frequently work with visual artist Danny Perez. Still, they find ways to integrate other artists while maintaining their overall style.
The music video for Panda Bear’s Crosswords involved a small team, including a director and a VFX person that were neither Portner or Perez. The video (from 2015, coming up on a decade old next year) uses early generative models like DeepDream, which was out of the realm of most other visual artists at the time.
Hell, if you can find a younger group or artist that hasn’t established those kinds of relationships yet, you could be the in-house visuals person for a good chunk of their career.
DJs also could use visual accompaniment. Plus, sharing pay with a single DJ is often more lucrative than sharing with an entire band.
Another idea is visuals for events/festivals. I work in the legal cannabis industry, and psychedelic visuals are welcome most places.
Anyway, best of luck in your endeavors