Touchdesigner Tutorial: Generative Instancing

In this video, I do a walkthrough of an existing instancing network I built, designed to look like randomly shifting geometry that resets on command–the command in most cases being some kind of audio input for music visualizers or real-time stage visuals.

This isn’t a conventional tutorial where we build from scratch. It’s more of a guided tour of an existing patch and the thought process behind it. I try to deal mostly with concepts that can be applied to your own work rather than spend a ton of time on specific techniques. So much of TD is trial and error and happy accidents, so I encourage you to think of this more as a guide on how to approach a project.

I hope no one will begrudge me calling this a tutorial. I just couldn’t think of better verbiage that YouTube would show to people who might be interested.

The project files for this are available on my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/owsley_wylyfyrd for mid-tier and up.