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12 Visualizers, 12 Weeks

10 of 12 episodes published

For the rollout of N U I T's Alt Real album, I built one audio-reactive lyric visualizer per track and released each alongside the single. This series is the working notebook: the concept, the Blender and Houdini setups, the stem breakdowns and the decisions behind each piece, one episode at a time.

  1. EP01
    N U I T – I wish you were here

    The first of twelve visualizers for N U I T's Alt Real album: how a decade of black-and-white EP art gives way to colour, built in Blender.

    Jun 23, 2026
  2. EP02
    N U I T – My Burning Soul

    A body burning down to the skeleton to keep only the burning passion: how three piano-driven textures, a Burn Noise shader and a bit of extra Glare carry the whole visualizer for My Burning Soul.

    Jun 30, 2026
  3. EP03
    N U I T – Don't Say Goodbye

    The prep behind N U I T's Alt Real visualizers: a mood board, an overplayed playlist and a title cut into sections became the visual grammar.

    Jul 7, 2026
  4. EP04
    N U I T – Let Me Disappear (Inside)

    A direct sequel to Don't Say Goodbye: an X-ray shader, a silhouette that never leaves the frame, and a three-part structure that ends the video in black and white, without nuance, without return.

    Jul 12, 2026
  5. EP05
    N U I T – This Alternate Reality

    A childhood Sega Saturn level, an elevator that reacts to sound by going soft, and an exploding red that crystallizes anger rising at the end of a bridge.

    Jul 18, 2026
  6. EP06
    N U I T – Dancing In Wonderland

    Making the Dancing In Wonderland visualizer: a lighthouse rebuilt from debris, a piano driving the light, and a late change to the master.

    Jul 26, 2026
  7. EP07
    N U I T – I Believe

    A reactive audio desert driven by bass and drums, a day/night cycle standing in for a reflection on death, and a closing tribute to old age hidden in a handful of grains of sand.

    Aug 2, 2026
  8. EP08
    N U I T – We Will Meet Again

    The We Will Meet Again visualizer, and a realization: the whole series has been built on Memento Mori and vanitas symbolism without me noticing.

    Aug 15, 2026
  9. EP09
    N U I T – Old Friend

    The Old Friend visualizer: a reused rose and skeleton, Monkey Island 2's dancing skeletons resurfacing, and a question about synaesthesia and memory.

    Aug 22, 2026
  10. EP10
    N U I T – Godspeed

    An elevator that climbs forever instead of falling, wind curves built in geometry nodes after a Wind Waker and old Gorillaz memory, and a moon that turns into a rose to set up next week's video.

    Aug 29, 2026
  11. EP11
    N U I T – Dreamland Newborn

    The Dreamland Newborn visualizer: the rose from Don't Say Goodbye opens, driven by Will's voice — sensuality without a silhouette was the brief.

    Planned Sep 5, 2026
  12. EP12
    N U I T – The Blinding

    Closing the loop on twelve videos: a sun and moon that opened the album now collapse into a black hole, built from a childhood habit of staring straight at the sun and the burn it left behind.

    Planned Sep 12, 2026

See the finished visualizer universe:

N U I T – Alt Real case study