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 […]

This is a tutorial for creating an ASCII effect in TouchDesigner. It is a beginner to intermediate level tutorial, though I do expect you have some familiarity with how to navigate the TouchDesigner interface. 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 […]

This beginner level TouchDesigner tutorial looks at how to create variable line width using the Line Material. If you have questions, comments, suggestions or corrections please leave them below, and thanks for watching! TouchDesigner build used: 2020:20020 Download an example .toe file here: https://github.com/Simonalexanderadams/TD-Tutorials/tree/master/2020-03-17_Variable_Line_Width Topic Timestamps: 00:10 – Intro 02:02 – Grid setup and render […]

This beginner level TouchDesigner tutorial uses 1D looping noise for the purpose of creating infinite tunnel zooms that start and stop in the same spot (okay, technically not infinite, but it does feel like it goes on forever!) We will also look at a technique for getting smooth camera motion and more generally explore methods […]

This beginner level TouchDesigner tutorial explores a method for looping noise for the purpose of creating looping animations. In it we will recreate a Processing sketch by Étienne Jacob, which is featured in his blog post Drawing from noise, and then making animated loopy GIFs from there. The article has lots of great examples of […]

This beginner level TouchDesigner tutorial covers using the Noise TOP to generate vertex displacement effects within the Phong MAT. It also touches on how to create a render network from scratch, recoloring with the Lookup TOP, and adding post-render shading with the SSAO TOP. In the article linked to below I discuss these topics in […]

This beginner level TouchDesigner tutorial covers instancing with the Geometry COMP, a technique that lets you copy one piece of geometry many times in an efficient way. To accomplish this we go through various methods for generating and manipulating CHOP data to represent position, rotation and color values. Instancing is a flexible tool that is […]