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Instancing Scene with iOS Face Tracking & TouchDesigner Tutorial

Get access to 100+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial Creating real-time content scenes with instancing is a great way to achieve compelling results with high performance. Being able to control those scenes and environments using […]

Instancing Trails without feedback in #touchdesigner

Instance trails are additional instances that follow an instance. In this tutorial we build a reusable component with which you can transform any instancing network to trailing instances. Previous popular methods have done this using Feedback to cache the instancing data, but here we use a Cache TOP and replicate multiple Cache Selects which gives […]

Instancing with TOPs in TouchDesigner

This TouchDesigner tutorial covers instancing with TOPs through the creation of a “particle donut.” It’s at a beginner to intermediate level, with a more advanced section at the end touching on GLSL. Consider supporting me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Polyhop There you can gain access to project files, help guide future topics and support the creation of […]

Integrating Stream Deck + in TouchDesigner – Tutorial

Get access to 120+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial In this video, Crystal will show how you can integrate Stream Deck by Elgato into your TouchDesigner workflow. We will use the MIDI plugin to control […]

Inter/Access TouchDesigner Workshop Day 1 / Part 2 (TOPs) (19th of September 2017)

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Inter/Access TouchDesigner Workshop Day 1 / Part 3 (CHOPs) (19th of September 2017)

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Inter/Access TouchDesigner Workshop Day 1 / Part 4 (SOPs) (19th of September 2017)

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Interactive Blobular Fluid TOUCHDESIGNER TUTORIAL

These tutorials are made possible by the wonderful supporters on Patreon. Thank you all. Consider subscribing there to make more of these possible and to download the project files and more. I usually add some extra spice to the Patreon files. https://www.patreon.com/supermarketsallad —– Let’s look at some recursion, displacement, curl, and optical flow. —– @simondavidryden […]

Interactive Edoardo Landi in TouchDesigner – Tutorial

Get access to 120+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial Many new TouchDesigner artists and developers are inspired by other great works artist. In another part of this series, Crystal Jow will take you through recreating […]

Interactive Eye Projection with Webcam or Kinect – TouchDesigner Tutorial 009

In this TouchDesigner tutorial, you learn how to create an interactive projection, where an eye follows people passing by. I use a webcam and the bodytrackCHOP to track persons, but you can also use a Kinect or other data like mouse cursor position, noise or any other object. With free AI image generation tools like […]

Interactive Feedback Painting in TouchDesigner Tutorial

Get access to 90+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial Many new developers and artist have trouble working with feedback loops in TouchDesigner and they can be slightly confusing to setup. Despite that, they’re incredible effective […]

Interactive Fire Particles – TouchDesigner Tutorial 001

TouchDesigner Tutorial 001 – Interactive Fire Particles In this beginner friendly tutorial, you will learn how to create an interactive fire tornado with TouchDesigner. The particle system can be controlled by a Kinect or any other CHOP data. Let me know what you think about it in the comments and hit the like button if […]

Interactive Fluid System (Part1) – Splitting Water like Moses – TOUCHDESIGNER TUTORIAL

Welcome to my channel! Hey there, I’m perspek.steven, and I’m thrilled to present my very first tutorial to you. In this tutorial series, I’ll guide you through harnessing the power of the NvidiaFlex solver in Touchdesigner. Together, we’ll dive into creating a basic fluid simulation and take it a step further by making it interactive. […]

Interactive fluid-like movement – NO GLSL needed – TOUCHDESIGNER TUTORIAL

Download the project files and more here. I usually add some extra spice to the Patreon files. https://patreon.com/supermarketsallad —————- here are my references for this video: —————- Palette component: https://derivative.ca/community-post/asset/colour-lover-palette-picker/62697 Paketa 12’s normal map https://derivative.ca/community-post/asset/normal-map-v2/65562 —————- 0:00 intro 0:54 first circle 2:13 mouse control and CHOP network 6:40 circle force 8:45 main feedback displacement loop […]

Interactive Installation Particle Systems with TouchDesigner

This tutorial combines optical flow feedback with particle systems. This technique is great for making interactive installations with cameras or dynamic rendered video content. This effect is done primarily in TOPs with feedback loops for both the position and velocity. You can download the masked dancer video I used from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/fire-performance-at-night-14524402/ By becoming a […]

Interactive Instrument – Instancing to MIDI in TouchDesigner (Tutorial)

Hello Everyone! In this tutorial, I’ll show you a special project I’ve been working on for a couple of days. We’ll use the RenderPickCHOP to extract instancing data and convert it to MIDI, allowing you to click and play! This project was inspired by elekktronaut’s video on playing drums with Kinect. (Their videos are great […]

Interactive light installation with Touchdesigner

Light is all around us in many different forms. This masterclass looks at several projects from interactive designer Ginger Leigh (Synthestruct) that utilize TouchDesigner and light in creative ways, from immersive experiences to interactive light sculptures and full-dome projections. How can light be used to visualize biological processes, sound, and data, affect our moods, and […]

Interactive Particles – TouchDesigner + Kinect Tutorial 1

In this TouchDesigner tutorial we look at how to create a basic interactive particle system by using the Kinect v2 (works with Azure too), Optical Flow and particlesGPU. We especially have a closer look at the particlesGPU, so you can easily customize the look and behaviour of the particles to your needs. OpticalFlow with Webcam: […]

Interactive Particles & Metaballs in TouchDesigner Tutorial

Get access to 90+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial If we had a dollar for every time a client asked for interactive particle systems, we’d be rich! But it can a bit tricky for new […]

Interactive particles & raymarching (SDF) geometry. TouchDesigner tutorial

Project files and links to all of mentioned resources – https://www.patreon.com/posts/43144103 Extra examples for Patreon supporters only – https://www.patreon.com/posts/43144301 Instanced particles interacted with a surface of raymarched geometry (signed distance function). How to combine two types of approach toward geometry rendering in one scene and make particles fly around SDF of bounce from it. Low-intermediate […]

Interactive Particles in 3D with TouchDesigner

Making 3D particle systems is pretty easy, and making interactive particle systems in 2D is pretty straightforward, but how can we make 3d particle systems that are still interactive? In this tutorial, I explore a simple method for 3d particle interaction using render picking on a single piece of geometry that I then use to […]

Interactive Particles with Optical Flow and ParticlesGPU 2022 – Tutorial

Get access to 120+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial The feature many developers and artists have been waiting for: optical flow interactivity with particlesGPU 2022! It’s finally here and it gives you the ability to […]

INTERACTIVE STRUCTURE – TOUCHDESIGNER TUTORIAL

today we create some interactive structure! download more detailed project files and get access to more tutorials and files: ​​https://www.patreon.com/pppanik BIG THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 🙂 if you want to, check out my work on instagram https://www.instagram.com/pppanik/​​ stay kind. sound in the beginning is custom made by RAAYS.

Interactive Text Displacement | TouchDesigner Tutorial

Just a sketch, that I decided to turn into a tutorial, as it covers some topics like replication, displacement, interactivity, basic scripting. So I hope you’ll find something helpful in it. The stroke that I use to make replicants connection is c.outputConnectors[0].connect(op(‘layout1’)), which means that for each replicant we call a connect method, that makes […]

INTERAKTIVES DESIGN | Mit JavaScript, p5js & TouchDesigner zum Erfolg | P3-1 Episode 2

Instagram: @johanna.el https://www.instagram.com/johanna.el/ Hier gehts zum Talk (Das Poster, dass wir interaktiv gestalten) https://www.mediendesign-ravensburg.de/ltt-design-und-dasein/ p5js: https://p5js.org/

Interfacing Arduino Neopixels with TouchDesigner

Get access to 200+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz Sorkhabi and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial In this video, we’ll create small, interactive candle effects on Arduino and go over an introduction of interfacing TouchDesigner with Arduino over Serial. We’ll begin […]

Internal Audio to TouchDesigner – TouchDesigner Tips, Tricks and FAQs 10

In this TouchDesigner tutorial we route audio from a media player (Spotify, YouTube, iTunes etc.) into TouchDesigner using the freeware VBCable. We also create a custom component so you can reuse this in the future and we create a simple visualisation to get you started. You can also use the Stereo Mix on Windows if […]

Intro to POPs: The New Operator Family in TouchDesigner

Get access to 200+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz Sorkhabi and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial If you haven’t already heard, a new operator family is coming to TouchDesigner! Point Operators (POPs for short) are a new family of GPU-based operators […]

Introducción a la creación de contenido sinestésico | Touchdesigner 1/12

https://www.instagram.com/yop3rro/ Introducción a esta serie de tutoriales de Touchdesigner en la que vamos a desarrollar contenido sinestésico, es decir, una audiovisualización y material audioreactivo como excusa para entender y aprender desde cero el flujo de trabajo y la lógica para crear nuestras propias redes paso a paso desde la construcción del material hasta la salida. […]

Introducción a las Instancias – Touchdesigner | 1/10

https://www.instagram.com/yop3rro/ En esta serie de tutoriales vamos a explorar las posibilidades de la técnica Instancias en touchdesigner, incrementando el nivel de complejidad en cada uno de los pasos que vamos a aprender. Esta técnica nos sirve para replicar geometrías de forma eficiente ya que se van a procesar en nuestro GPU. Además vamos a aprender […]

Introduction – TouchDesigner 101 Workshop Berlin 14th of December 2018

Introduction to TouchDesigner on December 14th 2018 covering Interface basics, getting help, operator families and general workflow

Introduction to TOP Context in TouchDesigner: Basics, Operators, and Compositing

Learn the basics of using the TOP (Texture Operator) context in TouchDesigner, a powerful visual programming language for real-time interactive multimedia content. In this tutorial, we cover: – *Operators*: Understand the difference between dark operators that generate images from scratch and lighter ones that modify existing images. – **Image Sources**: Explore various image-generating operators like […]

Introduction to TouchDesigner – Ben Voigt

Additional Files – https://goo.gl/syyRj6 For everyone who wants to get a fast track start on working with TouchDesigner, this workshop will provide a good basis to gain an initial understanding on workflow, concepts and techniques while equipping attendees with the knowledge to start creating interactive / generative setups. This workshop was recorded at TouchDesigner Summit […]

Introduction to TouchDesigner: Understanding Operators and Contexts

In this video, we dive into the fundamentals of TouchDesigner, a powerful node-based visual programming language. Learn about the different types of operators and contexts that are essential for building your projects. The main contexts described are: TOP (Texture Operator), CHOP (Channel Operator), SOP (Surface Operator). Whether you’re new to TouchDesigner or looking to deepen […]

Inverted Masking Technique | TouchDesigner Beginner Tutorial

Become a Patreon for exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/acrylicode Get 20% off on our Gumroad Files with discount code: “acode” on: https://acrylicode.gumroad.com Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acrylicode…. Twitter: https://twitter.com/acrylicode_art Website: https://www.acrylicode.com Support us by donating on our PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/acrylicode Absolute Beginner Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbupH… TouchDesigner is a node based visual programming language for real time interactive […]

Iridescent Glass // TouchDesigner Tutorial 4

hi hi, have a short tutorial for you:) made this texture for a ambient/experimental music event called ‘Weich’; and thought i’d share the process with you. also realizing now that this texture does not need to be mapped onto a 3D object at all and could be made entirely in TOPs,,, but alas i didn’t […]

Isometric Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing in TouchDesigner – Tutorial

Get access to 120+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial Sol LeWitt was a well known artist associated with the minimalist and conceptual art movements of the mid 20th century. He worked in a wide variety […]

JFA trick in Touchdesigner

In this, we build a Jump Flood algorithm using cones and a particle system that runs around the shape. There are plenty of glsl tools for this particular algorithm that are significantly faster, but I’m glad I found this approch. SDF components (glsl): https://github.com/DBraun/TouchDesigner_Shared/blob/master/TOPs/jump_flood_algorithm.toe https://forum.derivative.ca/t/sdf/10008 https://github.com/yeataro/TD_Voronoi Simon Alexander-Adams ‘Distance Map Displacement’ tutorial: .toe file (Patreon […]

John Maeda-style Generative Poster Design in TouchDesigner

John Maeda is a well known designer, artist, and computer scientist who has continually pushed the boundaries of not only disciplinary divisions between art and design, but also the use of the computer as an artistic medium. His series of posters for the Morisawa Inc., a type foundry based in Japan, pushed the boundaries of […]

John Whitney-style Oscillating Animation in TouchDesigner

Get access to 120+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial John Whitney is one of the pioneers of computer animation, well known for his work both in the commercial and artistic fields. In the 1950s and […]

Joy Division in Touchdesigner

here’s my take on the iconic album cover Unknown Pleasures. We use TOPs and SOPs for this algorithm. I really hope you like this. .toe file (Patreon exclusive): https://www.patreon.com/posts/76870933 Subscribe to this channel to get notified when I release new videos! You can support me on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/paketa12​​ or follow me on: https://www.instagram.com/paketa12​​ https://www.facebook.com/paketa12​

Julio Le Parc-style Generative Op Art in TouchDesigner – Tutorial

Get access to 120+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial Julio Le Parc is an Argentinian-born artist and sculptor whose work is often associated with the Op Art movement. Since the 1960s, Julio has created a […]

Kaleidoscope jellyfish TouchDesigner tutorial

This one is about getting flat colored polygons. Toe file here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tvy05jfm064lp8h/kaleidoscope%20jellyfish.toe?dl=0

Kantan Mapper 3/3- TouchDesigner Tutorial

This is the final series of projection mapping. If you take all steps, you will be a projection mappinger!! -Mini Projector Link- 3.Vankyo GO200 ebay – https://ebay.us/BdDQrE AliExpress – https://bit.ly/35ZVL3E Rakuten Ichiba* – https://bit.ly/3rpczZr *In terms of Rakuten, if you don’t live in Japan, you can use a global express service by Rakuten to get […]

Ken Knowlton-Inspired Photomosaic Effects in TouchDesigner

Get access to 200+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz Sorkhabi and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial Special Characters for Text TOPs (copy and paste into TouchDesigner): •➖➕➗✖ Ken Knowlton was a computer graphics pioneer and artist known for his experiments with […]

Kensuke Koike in Touchdesigner

here’s a quick tutorial for making Kensuke Koike shuffle UV. Also a little math for making ‘glassy’ surfaces on each grid cell. Kensuke Koike ‘The Myth of Asian American Identity.’ behind the scene : View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kensuke Koike 小池健輔 (@kensukekoike) .toe file (Patreon exclusive): https://www.patreon.com/posts/58104510 Subscribe to this […]

Keyboard Shortcuts in TouchDesigner: Panes

The keyboard shortcuts you should know when splitting panes in TouchDesigner 🖥️ Watch our full TouchDesigner Beginner Crash Course here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpuCjVEMQha9rjhDET3uuE0T3UeIcROJu

Keyframer Comp

A tour of the new Keyframer Component for TouchDesigner. You can download it here: https://derivative.ca/community-post/asset/keyframer-comp/64088 A couple of notes: When I mention that the cubic function is using a Bezier function with its handles split into thirds, I should have said .3333 along X not along the hypotenuse. When I talk about changing the units […]

kinect / projector calibration

Calibrate a Kinect to a projector with TouchDesigner. The result will be a camera you can use in your scene. Component available on the forum: http://derivative.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=12895

Kinect 2 vs Kinect Azure in TouchDesigner

In this video, Crystal will cover the differences between Kinect 2 and Kinect Azure in TouchDesigner. How do you get one of these devices, how is the technology different, and how do we use the sensor in TouchDesigner? We will build a simple network using displacement TOP to make a fun ghost-like visual. You can […]

Kinect 2 vs Kinect Azure in TouchDesigner

In this video, Crystal will cover the differences between Kinect 2 and Kinect Azure in TouchDesigner. How do you get one of these devices, how is the technology different, and how do we use the sensor in TouchDesigner? We will build a simple network using displacement TOP to make a fun ghost-like visual. You can […]

Kinect Azure and TouchDesigner: quick and easy effects

I took a few tutorials and made some quick sketches on my computer and in the studio for some simple effects that can be achieved in little time. I used both the player index and Kinect camera, instancing, and feedback with edge.

Kinect Azure Point Cloud in TouchDesigner Tutorial

Get access to 100+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial The Kinect Azure is a fantastic new sensor to use for your depth scanning and skeleton tracking purposes. Most people are surprised by how easily you […]

Kinect point cloud tutorial

How to set up Kinect point cloud in TouchDesigner and get minimalistic abstract output from it. This is more or less same technique I used in this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qNNaCWezLY You can download .toe files both for stable and experimental versions here – https://www.patreon.com/posts/32679662 (and it’s free!)

Kinect Skeleton Basics – TouchDesigner Tutorial

In this tutorial we go through the basics of driving a Limit SOP skeleton with Kinect CHOP channels. This can serve as the skeleton for all sorts of generative characters when you can’t (or don’t want to) use a rigged 3D model. This generative model also serves as nice source geometry for particles, instancing, etc. […]

Kinect V2 and Touchdesigner: how to rig a character in Blender

How to control a 3D organic character mesh with a Kinect V2. This tutorial shows you the workflow how to rig a mesh in Blender, export it to fbx, import it in Touchdesigner and setting up the parameters of the Kinect chop to let the mesh actually follow your gestures and movements. IMPORTANT! The newer […]

Kinetic Particle Text in TouchDesigner (TUTORIAL)

Showing a technique I used in a recent project! If you’re a beginner, check out this series Color picker tool https://derivative.ca/community-post/asset/colour-lover-palette-picker Follow me on the stuffs @tiwonku everywhere Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tiwonku/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/tiwonku

Kinetic Typography – TouchDesigner Tutorial 17

In this tutorial we use instancing to create kinetic typography based on different 3D geometry. Files, exclusive content and more:https://www.patreon.com/elekktronaut Special thanks to: Jules Guerin, AhnthinkgooD, Eric Anderson, Nikolai Reinke, Rob, Xenia Format, Jeppe Vinum, Teruhisa, Simón Jaramillo Vallejo, hans mortelmans, Yeah and Lloyd Marsden If you have any questions, feel free to ask. IG: […]

Kinetic Typography With Instancing – TouchDesigner Tutorial 49

In this TouchDesigner tutorial we’re using Instancing and Replicators to create a network for 3D typography that can be manipulated with systems like feedback and noise. (This video was a Patreon early access before, another early access will published later this month) Tex Instancing for Mac: https://youtu.be/YZ8SbCdjo2o If you have trouble integrating this technique, have […]

Kinetic Typography: Sentence instancing with Touchdesigner – PART 1

In this first part of a multiple part tutorial series we are going to explore a concept we’ve called ‘sentence instancing’. This rather technical part will explore the fundamental steps you need to take for creating a tool where a user can input a sentence and iterate through different shapes and/or animation paths which this […]

Kinetic Typography: Sentence instancing with Touchdesigner – PART 2: UI build

In the second part of this multiple part tutorial series we are going to build a UI around our kinetic typographic animation tool using Touchdesigner. Not that technical as part 1 but it will provide you a couple of insights in UI building and makes this text animation tool a lot more interactive and optimized! […]

Kinetic Typography: Sentence instancing with Touchdesigner – PART 3 – (1 of 2): Complex shapes

In this third part of this multiple part tutorial series we are going to show a couple of different approaches for creating, how we would like to call it, ‘animation shapes’. These can be done in Touchdesigner but we’re also using Blender for creating complex 3d models which will act as complex paths for the […]

Kinetic Typography: Sentence instancing with Touchdesigner – PART 3 – (2 of 2): Complex shapes

In this third part of this multiple part tutorial series we are going to show a couple of different approaches for creating, how we would like to call it, ‘animation shapes’. These can be done in Touchdesigner but we’re also using Blender for creating complex 3d models which will act as complex paths for the […]

Kinetic Typography: Sentence instancing with Touchdesigner – PART 4: Non-Kepler & OSX workaround

In this fourth part of this multiple part tutorial series we are finally showing our Non-Kepler gpu users and Apple Mac OSX friends, who regularly bump into an error which tells that ‘texture instancing is not supported’, a workaround to step into this tutorial series as well! It’s not very difficult to set it up […]

L-ISA & TouchDesigner Part 1 : L-Touch

A method for controlling L-ISA with TouchDesigner Concepts/Operators covered: -Custom parameters -Hold CHOP -OSC & OSC Out DAT -Python/CHOP Execute DAT

L-ISA & TouchDesigner Part 2: OSC Feedback

Getting parameter feedback from L-ISA Controller. Concepts/Operators covered: OSC in CHOP Override CHOP L-ISA OSC outpute Parameter/CHOP Binding