NVIDIA Flex is a particle-based physics simulator that takes advantage of NVIDIA GPUs to generate high-performing particle and fluid simulations. It comes integrated in TouchDesigner and provides a GPU-enhanced alternative to some of its other particle and physics simulation options.
Community
Workshop in French Cette formation s’adresse à des artistes et créateur·rice·s professionnel·elle·s de tous secteurs ainsi qu’à des régisseur·euse·s du spectacle vivant (son, vidéo, lumière), travaillant sur des créations audio et/ou vidéo et souhaitant développer des compétences nécessaires à la cr
Création numérique avec TouchDesigner
Create a scene that moves through a warped grid! Topics include: scene organization and parameterization tiling in 3d bending and twisting space light attenuation modular material with specular and diffuse shading step-based movement with python https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfygCvdfzTQ
RayTK Warped Grid Tutorial
What do you do when you’ve deployed a project on-site and want to make sure it’s still running? Or perhaps check up on its performance, up time, or any other number of important components? Maybe you’re just looking to receive information from an internet-connected sensor for your project?
Setting Up Your First MQTT Server for Immersive System Communication
Crystal Jow covers some simple habits and tips that will make you more of a pro in TouchDesigner. These habits and tips are usually more difficult to pick up when self-learning or aren't talked about in most videos because they aren't as flashy, but they will improve your workflow!
Simple PRO TouchDesigner Tips & Habits
This course explores the fusion of music and visuals through the combined use of Bitwig Studio and TouchDesigner. Students will learn how to create synchronized audiovisual performances, interactive installations, and immersive experiences, with a stronger emphasis on Bitwig Studio techniques.
AudioVisual Production with Bitwig and TouchDesigner
Unreal Engine can now both receive and send DMX, allowing it to be used for ultra realistic previz and testing or even for controlling fixtures in real-time.
Get DMX into Unreal Engine from TouchDesigner
PROMOTE Hello, The first version of "Promote" is now available! This component enables the rapid creation of custom parameters using a customizable keyboard shortcut. The detailed description of how it works can be found in my previous post.
PROMOTE
I have now finally reached the CHOP section in the youtube video "Absolute Beginner TouchDesigner | From Zero to Hero with Examples and Assigments" by Acrylicode and I see this is the part where Touchdesigner separates the men(artists) from the boys(programmers).
My Learning Journey 03 - Okay, CHOPs make my head hurt a little
Back in December, Derivative released its 2023 Official update. There are many fun new features in the new build and some things you need to be aware of. The Interactive & Immersive HQ is here to catch you up on all the recent highlights. To continue reading this post, click here.
TouchDesigner 2023 Official Updates
Learn how to combine cheap, durable Addressable LEDs and dynamic, realtime pattern generation with reused found objects and artistic process! Expand your capabilities as an artist and learn how to incorporate animated LEDs into your artworks.
LED Pixel Light Art: from Concept to Exhibition
This intermediate workshop will focus a full day on TouchDesigner workflows for creating and managing a show system and its assets in TouchDesigner. Markus Heckmann and Ben Voigt from Derivative will be your instructors for the workshop.
TouchDesigner Workshop - Show Creation and Control
This is my custom interactive Blob Tracking installation, simple yet dynamic.
Blob Track Interactive Installation │ Nvidea Backgr
Projects in TouchDesigner are often based on timelines. Whether it is having particles relate to a soundtrack or having a moment in a video triggering an action, it is essential to have a way to sync your actions to a timeline.
Timecode CHOP in TouchDesigner
The release of the 2023.10000 Series of TouchDesigner brought with it a slew of exciting changes, one of which is a notable update for Sequential Parameters, which includes support for creating custom sequential parameters.
Sequential Parameters in TouchDesigner
Want to create an interactive look without using a body tracking sensor? In this video, we'll show you how to use the latest Nvidia body-tracking CHOP to create an effect where an orb is following you.
Body Tracking Orb in TouchDesigner
The Table DAT operator in TouchDesigner stands out as a remarkably versatile tool for organizing and manipulating data in immersive projects.
Table DAT Operator in TouchDesigner
In this video, Crystal covers how to make a generative ornament animation in TouchDesigner. The look is inspired by Thomas Weil's 'New Grammar of Ornament' book. She'll look at different ways of using TOP compositing and tiling with Transform TOP to achieve this look.
New Grammar of Ornament in TouchDesigner Pt. 2
Organized by The NODE Institute, the TouchDesigner Roundtable Berlin is the meeting point for creatives and developers who work with the visual development platform TouchDesigner as well as everybody who is curious about the world of interactive media art and the people behind it.
TouchDesigner Roundtable Berlin XXX
In this tutorial we have a look at how to generate trailing instances, by definind a set of leading instances and utilizing Cache TOP with a replicator and Layout TOP.
Instance Trails without feedback
Workshop in French Cette formation s’adresse à des artistes et créateur·rice·s professionnel·elle·s de tous secteurs ainsi qu’à des régisseur·euse·s du spectacle vivant (son, vidéo, lumière), travaillant sur des créations audio et/ou vidéo et souhaitant développer des compétences nécessaires à la cr
Création numérique avec TouchDesigner
Create a scene that moves through a warped grid! Topics include: scene organization and parameterization tiling in 3d bending and twisting space light attenuation modular material with specular and diffuse shading step-based movement with python https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfygCvdfzTQ
RayTK Warped Grid Tutorial
What do you do when you’ve deployed a project on-site and want to make sure it’s still running? Or perhaps check up on its performance, up time, or any other number of important components? Maybe you’re just looking to receive information from an internet-connected sensor for your project?
Setting Up Your First MQTT Server for Immersive System Communication
Crystal Jow covers some simple habits and tips that will make you more of a pro in TouchDesigner. These habits and tips are usually more difficult to pick up when self-learning or aren't talked about in most videos because they aren't as flashy, but they will improve your workflow!
Simple PRO TouchDesigner Tips & Habits
Organized by The NODE Institute, the TouchDesigner Roundtable Berlin is the meeting point for creatives and developers who work with the visual development platform TouchDesigner as well as everybody who is curious about the world of interactive media art and the people behind it.
TouchDesigner Roundtable XXV
This event, 'TOUCHDESIGNER COMMUNITY IN ARGENTINA 2023,' will be the second meet-up and free/open event organized by artists and users from Argentina. On this special occasion, we will have five artists from Argentina, one artist from Chile, and another artist from Uruguay.
TOUCHDESIGNER COMMUNITY IN ARGENTINA 2023
Bitwig, the innovative digital audio workstation, offers a seamless integration with TouchDesigner, the powerful visual development platform. Together, they provide a dynamic and intuitive environment for creating audiovisual experiences.
Modulate and Conquer. Intro Lesson for AV Production with Bitwig and TouchDesigner
Find a helpful checklist in this tutorial as we explore essential tools for creating real-time ready assets.
Tools for Creating Real-Time Ready Assets
Since Unreal Engine is quickly becoming a go-to tool for interactive and immersive developers, you might be wondering how you can access and utilize API data in projects of your own.
Unreal Engine Immersive Experience Tips: API Data from TouchDesigner
Organized by The NODE Institute, the TouchDesigner Roundtable Berlin is the meeting point for creatives and developers who work with the visual development platform TouchDesigner as well as everybody who is curious about the world of interactive media art and the people behind it.
TouchDesigner Roundtable XXVII - November 30th
n preparation for our highly anticipated online course AV Production with Bitwig and TouchDesigner, we are excited to announce the release of the long-awaited software updates from both Bitwig and Derivative. Bitwig Studio 5.1 and TouchDesigner 2023 Update have arrived almost simultaneously.
Whats new in TouchDesigner 2023 / Bitwig 5.1
Learn how to create a scene with RayTK that has a grid of abstract flower shapes that open and close around little gems! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4rqfZt7h1k x
RayTK Tiled Flower Scene Tutorial
The solid communal energy in this field is an aspect that separates TouchDesigner from other software. There are constantly new Tox files being shared and new ones being found. We’re back again with more community assets you should add to your toolkit! To continue reading this post, click here.
TouchDesigner Community Tools (Part 2)
This tutorial is inspired from the Genuary (generative art month in January) prompt from day 3 to create something in the style of a Droste effect / a Picture in a Picture. I use the MediaPipe hand tracking plugin created by Dom Scott and myself to controll the motion.
Picture in Picture Hand Tracking Effect - TouchDesigner Tutorial
There are tons of DAW choices out there but most musical artists end up using Ableton or Bitwig for live performances because of their dynamic clip grids.
Bitwig and TouchDesigner Integration Quick Start
Among the numerous new features of TouchDesigner is a long-requested addition: official support for the Apple ProRes codec in the Movie File In and Movie File Out TOPs.
Apple ProRes Codec in TouchDesigner
Join us for an evening of creativity and collaboration at our TouchDesigner Meetup!
Touchdesigner Meetup @ NYC Resistor
In February 2022, the Interactive & Immersive HQ published its first artist-inspired TouchDesigner tutorial, Generative Kandinsky in TouchDesigner. In this blog, we highlight some of the most-watched videos from the series and the artist on which each tutorial is based.
Artist-Inspired TouchDesigner Tutorial Highlights
This beginner guide will not only show you the operator but some features of the operator that should be noted. This blog will glance at different operators that will spark curiosity for deeper personal exploration. To continue reading this post, click here.
Useful TouchDesigner Operators: TOPs
This event '0 // 2023 Public Visuals Tokyo' will create various live audiovisual performances with audiovisual artists, visual artists, composers, and video artists.
0 // 2023 Public Visuals Tokyo
Create a scene with a cluster of tentacles made from geometric patterns. Topics include: spiralZoom stepField handling render glitches blending with hidden SDFs polyhedronSdf modular material with specular and diffuse shading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFYAhSR0LQ8 x
RayTK Geometric Tentacles Tutorial
Workshop in french Session du 04/12/2023 au 08/12/2023 Public Régisseurs vidéo, régisseurs son, régisseurs lumière. Prérequis Bonnes connaissances du fonctionnement d’un ordinateur. Connaissances en configuration d’un système de diffusion vidéo.
TouchDesigner – création et régie vidéo
Have you mastered TouchDesigner 2D textures and TOPs and are interested in working in 3D? You can generate, import, modify and combine 3D geometry in the SOP (Surface Operator) family. This blog will let you know what SOPs you should know and the benefits and drawbacks of working with them.
Useful TouchDesigner Operators: SOPs
AUG 18〔Fir〕20230 // 2023 Public Visuals Los Angeles〔Los Angeles, CA〕 This event '0 // 2023 Public Visuals Los Angeles' will create various live audiovisual performances with audiovisual artists, visual artists, composers, and video artists.
0 // 2023 Public Visuals Los Angeles
Did you download the latest TouchDesigner build but are not sure what the new updates are? Here are the highlights of the most recent TouchDesigner build. To continue reading this post, click here.
Latest TouchDesigner Update 2022.33910
This is a tox file to work with SuperDirt using TouchDesigner like TidalCycles. SuperDirt runs on SuperCollider as an OSC-based synthesizer. So you can use TouchDesigner and this tox to send OSCs and play sounds with the protocol for SuperDirt directly.
I make a tox for TouchDesigner to SuperDirt Directly.
Create a scene with a box with radial symmetry where the edges of the box and the symmetry are highlighted.
RayTK Folding Box Outline Tutorial
Organized by The NODE Institute, the TouchDesigner Roundtable Berlin is the meeting point for creatives and developers who work with the visual development platform TouchDesigner as well as everybody who is curious about the world of interactive media art and the people behind it.
TouchDesigner Roundtable XXVI - October 26th
Memory Palace is an interactive experience created by Tekt and the team at Immerse Studio, powered by TouchDesigner. It will also feature connected experiences from several other artists, to be announced soon. Join us for an unforgettable evening at the Memory Palace!
Memory Palace Immersive Experience
Feedback, when combined with particle systems, can generate some incredible visual results. With a few operators, you can generate simple trails that trace the trajectory of each particle to smoke-like clouds that look as though they've been emitted by the particles as they move.