New Body Tracking Plugin for TouchDesigner – No Kinect Needed

Hey! In this tutorial, we’ll go over my new body-tracking plugin for TouchDesigner. It runs off the webcam and works on both Mac and PC without any setup. In this video I’ll show you an overview of the component and how to start using it in your TouchDesigner Projects. I’ve refined this plugin based on a number of motion tracking projects I’ve done with the Azure Kinect and built this to have the setup process simple and affordable. I’m really looking forward to seeing what you create with this!

The component supports BlazePose(x, y, z positions) and MoveNet(x, y positions).

Link to the Project File is on my Pawtreon: https://patreon.com/tblankensmith
Link to OBS for Website: https://obsproject.com/

0:00 Intro and Overview
2:20 Project Requirements & Component Overview
4:34 Selecting a Webcam
5:15 Selecting an ML model
9:13 Example 1 Moving a Circle with Your Hands
12:36 Example 2 Mapping Hand Velocity to Circle Size
14:24 Example 3 Mapping Distance Between Hands to Circle Size
16:50 Example 4 Instancing all the Position Data for Rendering
18:53 Example 5 Passing your Own Video in for Body Tracking