I am a Visual Designer (rather than a Light Designer) working exclusively within the Live music production industry for music tours, TV shows, video shoots and promo production.
I'm using the ArKaos VJ software since the very first beta versions back in 1997 for David Bowie - this was the first use of the software on a tour! - and I'm still using it in all situations.
I'm currently preparing tours for A-HA and others with ArKaos VJ DMX, it gives me complete scalability, process control, and instant access via MIDI or DMX devices. It has taken 6 years for the rest of my industry to put a rival product to ArKaos VJ on the market - Catalyst, which I think is inferior but has market share - with DMX compatibility ArKaos VJ has a strong position to go forward.
Honestly, with ArKaos VJ I have had £4,000,000 outside broadcast vehicles outputs upstream of my system as I could manipulate several layers and scales that they could not! I think that the Lighting Design and Visual Animation disciplines are clearly begining to merge together; personally, I have always and will continue to treat my visuals as lighting effects that are more about color and movement, in order to create an atmosphere to support the show rather than TV type content that draws the audience away from the stage and back to the same experience that they have every night watching TV, as this is a cop out!
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