This is the start of my Utopia Pinball TouchDesigner blog. I'm hoping this will help document my scope and progress.
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Christian demonstrates a few different projection mapped visuals in TouchDesigner that you can use to start creating your own visuals for your next projection mapping project.
Projection Mapping Content with TouchDesigner
#UnwrappDaGeo Today, I bring you a new creation to ignite yours: a tool that transforms geometry into textures, distilling all the vital data for GPU wizardry. Spring-Like Deformation: One example showcases how to imbue geometry with elastic interactive behaviors.
Unwrapper3 and The GeometryTOOLs
Creating visuals that move and loop perfectly was once a challenge I thought I’d never conquer. But through trial, error, and a lot of patience, I developed a technique that works like a charm—and now, I’m thrilled to share it with you!
LOOPED VISUALS - TOUCHDESIGNER TUTORIAL [11]
HI! I'm doing an interactive LED screen floor with my art for an event in Miami on December 5th.
Event for Art Basel
From 13th till 18th of December 2024we will host an offline light laboratory and hold the first cohort of the Extended Real Lights course in bright Lisbon studio. We expect the mid-level artists to receive professional feedback on the beta version of the course.
Lisbon Light Lab .- TouchDesigner, GrandMA, Capture, ABleton, Bitwig, Sollinger Toolbox, Pangolin
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Audioreactive visuals using TouchDesigner and Unreal Engine
In this tutorial we'll integrate Stable Diffusion in TouchDesigner in two ways. First by creating a text-to-image generation system, and then using that to generate a video for further manipulation. To continue reading this post, click here.
What is Stable Diffusion and How to Use it in TouchDesigner
In this video, creative technologist Scott Mann takes you through his setup using TouchDesigner and ComfyUI to create audio-reactive generative artworks.
ComfyUI (Generative AI) with TouchDesigner
Interviews are part of life, but the good news is—they’re also something we can get better at with practice and preparation. In this post, we dive into how you can successfully navigate a TouchDesigner job interview and move closer to your goals. To continue reading this post, click here.
Successfully Prepare for a TouchDesigner Job Interview
Add this effect to your lyric video or use it to fancy up your captions on your next social post. This method isn’t limited to text through. You could replace the text SOPs with all sorts of shapes, geometry, etc to transition between.
Text Particle Transitions
https://youtu.be/uQJ3s-5Z230?si=ezNhKtJq2HZek6dC Our team at Toronto Metropolitan University's Master of Digital Media program recently concluded The Echo Wave Project, an interactive art installation presented at the City of Toronto’s Future Makers exhibition.
The Echo Wave Project: Visualizing Mental Health with TouchDesigner
For this next video in our artist-inspired series, you'll learn how to adapt Adam Ferriss' "churning hue cycle” shader to function within TouchDesigner.
Adam Ferriss' Churning Hue Cycle Shader in TouchDesigner
TDVPN - Free VPN in touchdesigner This project is a free VPN solution developed using TouchDesigner, enabling users to connect to servers worldwide and bypass regional restrictions to access restricted websites and services.
TDVPN - Free VPN in touchdesigner
The Hilbert Curve in SOP & TOP! Hey everyone! I’m sharing a project file where I’ve built the Hilbert Curve using both SOPs and TOPs. The Hilbert Curve is a fascinating fractal and a space-filling algorithm, meaning it fills up a 2D area in one continuous, non-overlapping line.
Procedural Hilbert patterns
Generative Narratives for Change:
Generative Narratives for Change: Code, Typography, and Storytelling in TouchDesigner
OSCToolset is a plugin for Unreal Engine 5 that simplifies the OSC workflow from TouchDesigner. It is designed to work on Runtime and streamlines the creation of the OSC Client / Server so that you can directly send data from one software to another.
OSCToolset v2.0 - Simplifying the communication between TD and UE5
Hello again! I’ve shared a special file for you to explore, in my patreon page: two versions of the Dragon Curve: one created as a point cloud (in TOP) and another 3D version (in SOP).
Unfold the Dragon
Préparez-vous pour TouchIn MTL, des rencontres trimestrielles destinées à la communauté TouchDesigner de Montréal ! Cette dernière édition de 2024 aura lieu le 5 décembre, et se tiendra dans les locaux de L’UQAM, hôte de l’événement.
TouchIn MTL UQAM | Rencontres de la communauté TouchDesigner de Montréal
Prepare to bring some serious glow to your projects! In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to create striking, bright lines that add depth and energy to any scene. We’ll start by building a 3D base figure, setting up a foundation for the glowing lines to interact with.