B2BK

.BIRTHDAY 5. *ENG* I have just completed my 5th year since I decided to take the status of independent artist. So yes indeed, it's not easy every day, I obviously put an end to a certain comfort that I had in the big studios. BUT this image (small anthology of these 5 years) reminds me that I made the right choice! The variety of projects, the freedom of creation are engines that have become essential to my development. Thank you very much to the great people I met on the road, those who trusted me. May this road be long and still strewn with lots of beautiful encounters... >> 100% of these visuals are made with the amazing software @touchdesigner . *FR* Je viens de boucler la 5ème année depuis que j'ai décidé de prendre le statut d'artiste indépendant. Alors oui effectivement, c'est pas facile tous les jours, j'ai évidemment mis fin à un certain confort que j'avais dans les grands studios. MAIS cette image (petit florilège de ces 5 années) me rappelle que j'ai fait le bon choix ! La variété des projets, la liberté de création sont des moteurs devenus indispensables à mon épanouissement. Merci infiniment aux supers gens que j'ai croisé sur le chemin, ceux qui m'ont fait confiance. Que cette route soit longue et encore parsemée de pleins de belles rencontres... #realtime #visuals #interactiveart #videomapping #generativeart #creativetechnology #creativecoding #visualprogramming #touchdesigner #b2bk

There is something fascinating about navigating in these old #pointclouds.. Or maybe am I a bit obsessed !? As previous post, custom accumulation #depthoffield process in @touchdesigner , with my cam rig on slide 2 (60 renders) And still my "LensEffects" tool, soon shared. #touchdesigner #photogrammetry #amsterdam

Sprinkle a #pointcloud on top of lowpoly geometry Made #realtime in @touchdesigner , using old #3dscans and my recent tool to get anamorphic #depthoffield #touchdesigner

"Hey, i've found some mushrooms in my painting !?" When you push the faders a little bit too far on my rencent AccumulateDOF tool in @touchdesigner , you get this almost abstract look on unfocused areas, like a drawing you can navigate. Like how the differents layers of depth are revealed by changing the focus point. Type : 60 renders DOF Mushrooms : Psilocybe Mexicana Location : 🤫 #pointclouds #touchdesigner

@b2bk.fr self-portraits serve as the contemporary pulse of a media genealogy that Rome New Media Week traces back to the temporal sculptures of Joan Truckenbrod. While Truckenbrod used the slow crawl of early video digitizers to stretch the human form into fluid waveforms, B2bk utilizes real-time GPU processing to achieve an instantaneous dissolution of the static mask. This evolution shifts the narrative from the final image to the transparency of the process where the feedback loop itself becomes the primary artifact. By mapping gestures to noise and point clouds, these works strip away the vanity of traditional aesthetics to find a grounded geometrical simplicity within the machine’s impartial logic. In the context of a city like Rome, which is defined by its monumental permanence, this lineage reveals a more authentic modern identity. It is an identity that exists as a live dynamic signal rather than a fixed stone monument. RNMW identifies this not as a glitch, but as a return to a structural truth where the self is constantly being recalculated and reformed through the ancestry of the algorithm.

This is what I imagine when I see skeletons, like this one, in Hintze Hall of Natural History Museum @nhmlondon Made #realtime inside @touchdesigner with my accumulateDOF tool Pointcloud originally made by Thomas Flynn, downloaded on Sketchfab. You will excuse my poor animation, without proper rig, I animate the creature with a simple sin curve ^^ #pointcloud #touchdesigner

A small souvenir of a beautiful day with my dog Just one smartphone photo + Apple Sharp + my LensEffects tool in @touchdesigner #3dgaussiansplatting #touchdesigner

.ACCUMULATE. How my recent research on accumulated #depthoffield is becoming a new tool for @touchdesigner . (See my two last posts) Very intuitive infinite knob for focus, ability to visualize and change the cameras rig... Few options, lot of possibilities ! Let me clean this project a bit, and i will be able to share it as well. #touchdesigner #customtools #b2bk

Tonight, I tried a lovely #realtime technique to simulate stylized #depthoffield in @touchdesigner I render 60 slightly different images to accumulate them by average. The result is highly customizable, depending on the camera rig. >>look the one i used for this video on slide2 🤣 The system is working with both #pointclouds and geometries. And you know what, contrary to how it sounds, its not too heavy process :) Some few lens effects were added with the tool I will share very soon. #touchdesigner #photogrammetry

For multiple reasons beyond my control, I was very inspired by the moon lately... #realtime inside @touchdesigner Music by @adriatique

Introducing the second @touchdesigner tool I'm developing and will be releasing soon. "the_ultimate_colorgrader" allows a perfect control of the look and colors of your images/videos/3D renders, with capabilities of dedicated professional softwares. > Shadows/Midtones/Highlights wheels > Master/R/G/B curves > Selective Hue > Colorspaces For this one, I have to thank @jacqueshoepffner and @dylanroscover for their contributions, I used and upgraded some parts of projects they shared a while ago. Have a look at "the_lens_effects", in my previous post. It can be a very nice combo 🤘 #touchdesigner #b2bk

This past few days, I've developed 2 new @touchdesigner tools that can be very useful to anyone. I present you the first one, "the_lens_effects" to simulate properties of traditional movie lenses and films. Distortion / Focus / Lens dirt / Chromatic aberrations / Grain / Bloom / Starglow / even Lens Flares ! all of these completely #realtime, directly from any video input or 3D render. In this video, I pushed the faders a little too far, but that way, you won't miss the result ^^ The video of the second tool is coming.. These tools are not completely ready to be shared yet, but hopefully soon. (Thank you @sarv.vj for your tests and feedback) #touchdesigner #b2bk #thelenseffects