anya maryina

How to learn TouchDesigner?

Mark Tutorial Completed! If you feel overwhelmed by learning TouchDesigner — this video is for you 🙂 The structured approach without relying on tutorials too much makes wonders: you focus on your own ideas and don’t waste time learning techniques that you’ll never use. If, at first glance, it seems too complicated, or time-consuming, I […]

Bus Seat | Generative Design | TouchDesigner Tutorial

Mark Tutorial Completed! Have you heard about instancing? If not, this tutorial is an example of what you can do with this technique. Its possibilities go beyond what’s covered here, but it’s a great starting point. I hope that after watching this tutorial, you’ll be able to create your own designs too. Have fun! x […]

I turned my monitor into a touchscreen | TouchDesigner Tutorial (Part 3)

Mark Tutorial Completed! This is the final video in a 3-part series on using the Slamtec RPLidar A1 to create interactive visuals in TouchDesigner. Let’s combine what we did in the previous videos and make the visual respond to several touches! I tried to keep the tutorial short and to the point, so I couldn’t […]

I turned my monitor into a touchscreen | TouchDesigner Tutorial (Part II)

Mark Tutorial Completed! This is the second video in a 3-part series on using the Slamtec RPLidar A1 to create interactive visuals in TouchDesigner. This time, we’re setting up the lidar, calibrate it, and process data stream to get the touch coordinates. I tried to keep the tutorial short and to the point, so I […]

I turned my monitor into a touchscreen | TouchDesigner Tutorial Part I

Mark Tutorial Completed! This is the first video in a 3-part series on using the Slamtec RPLidar A1 to create interactive visuals in TouchDesigner. In this part, we’re focusing on building a particle system controlled by mouse input. We’ll cover the rest in the next parts which I’m going to post in a few days. […]

Asemic Writing | TouchDesigner Tutorial

Mark Tutorial Completed! Hey, let’s make some procedural asemic writing today 🙂 —————————————————————————————– A link to the project file: https://anyamaryina.gumroad.com/l/asemic —————————————————————————————– Follow me on social media: Insta: https://www.instagram.com/anyamaryina Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@anya_maryina —————————————————————————————– Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:30 Disclaimer 01:48 Creating the lines 05:13 General setup 06:18 Instancing 08:22 Applying the texture 10:44 Adjusting line thickness 12:22 Small […]

5 Ways To Make Particles in TouchDesigner

Mark Tutorial Completed! In this video, I talk about different approaches to creating particle systems in TouchDesigner using nodes. I didn’t include workflows that involve GLSL and Python, because they are not specific to TouchDesigner, and I assume there are a lot of of reliable resources on these two methods available online. Also, this video […]

Reorder TOP explained for beginners | PNG into particles | TouchDesigner Tutorial

Mark Tutorial Completed! Hey, I thought it would be nice to dedicate the whole video to this setup since it’s quite common yet can be confusing. Hopefully, this tutorial will spread some light. In the end, you’ll be able to use .PNG images as particles source. Project file (free): https://anyamaryina.gumroad.com/l/png_into_particles If you want a bit […]

L-Systems & Particles | TouchDesigner Tutorial

Mark Tutorial Completed! Hey, that’s a brief introduction to working with L-Systems in TouchDesigner along with some particles. I hope you’ll fine it helpful 🙂 A link to the free project file: https://anyamaryina.gumroad.com/l/ocmhk Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:32 Creating a general layout 01:45 L-System overview 07:09 Transforming the tree into particles 09:54 Post-processing 11:32 Additional particles […]

Vera Molnar's Quads & Iterations | TouchDesigner Tutorial

Mark Tutorial Completed! Let’s recreate one of the Vera Molnar’s works, which if perfect to study nested iterations! A link to a free project file: https://anyamaryina.gumroad.com/l/molnar_iterations Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:59 Creating a grid of rectangles 05:05 Distorting rectangles 07:25 Creating layers of rectangles 10:42 Adjusting the grid 11:13 Colorizing 13:39 A small tip 13:58 Outro […]

Interactive Text Displacement | TouchDesigner Tutorial

Mark Tutorial Completed! 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 […]