https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6ENCnSUNY4 IDEAS VIVAS — an interactive audiovisual installation built with TouchDesigner The piece begins with a poetic premise: imagining ideas as living entities — small organisms that exist around us, moving, gathering, dissolving and transforming even b
The totally crazy Summer Sale 26 is on at The NODE Institute. 50% off on all recorded TouchDesigner courses, even bundles until End of August 2026 (Berlin Time) Collect them All! Explore the course catalogue!
Combining AI with TouchDesigner opens the door to extraordinary new creative possibilities. In this post we explore some remarkable artworks and installations that bring together artificial intelligence and TouchDesigner. To continue reading this post, click here.
We're back with another update to our Beginner Tricks series! Let's dive into some TouchDesigner beginner tips and tricks for 2026. To continue reading this post, click here.
This announcement is posted on behalf of our friends Andrew Quinn, Edoardo Olivetto aka EDOHARD and Mattia Diomedi who are organizing from Milan. Prepare yourselves for the 'Italian Touch' a TouchDesigner Meetup in Milan, 25 September 2026!
Mastering GLSL requires a great deal of attention and a sharp eye for detail. In this article, we will take a look at some common GLSL mistakes in TouchDesigner and how to avoid them. To continue reading this post, click here.
INTERACTIVE LASER WORKSHOP WITH TOUCHDESIGNER Hello, I’m Sungmin Oh, a Seoul-based media artist and creative technology instructor working with TouchDesigner, interactive laser systems, sound, hand tracking, DMX, haze, and real-time performance.
Object Segmentation TOP is a native C++ Custom Operators that runs state-of-the-art transformer-based object-segmentation models fully on GPU.
Data Ride: A VR Cycling Experience Hi everyone, I’d like to share Data Ride, my BA diploma project developed at the Intermedia Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.
In this post we explore a workflow that allows us to integrate TouchDesigner and Houdini, by creating complex geometries and custom attributes in Houdini and bringing those geometries and attributes to be modified in real-time in TouchDesigner. To continue reading this post, click here.
In this example case, we outline a situation where we receive data, route that into TouchDesigner, do some minimal processing, and then pass that over into Unreal Engine. To continue reading this post, click here.
Every year we highlight the latest TouchDesigner community tools you should know about. Here’s our latest updated list of essential TouchDesigner community tools for 2026. To continue reading this post, click here.
In this blog post we go through the process of how we built an advanced translation machine that makes it possible to speak with the trees using LLMs, TouchDesigner and other magic for this years Bloom festival in Copenhagen.
Using POPs in TouchDesigner opens the door to exciting new techniques for visual generation and manipulation. Let's explore some examples. To continue reading this post, click here.
In this post, we'll look at how we can create visuals for an Ableton Live Set in TouchDesigner using several TDAbleton components and some creative tricks for driving animation using the CHOP-based data we have access to. To continue reading this post, click here.
Collaborative VFX with TouchDesigner: Behind the Visual Effects of Grey Matter Dear reader, I'd like to share with you, from the perspective of an audiovisual composer working with TouchDesigner, the experience of using the software collaboratively as a visual composition tool for an experimenta
In this post, we’ll cover the different ways you can connect TouchDesigner and Unreal Engine, why you would want to do so, and some examples of projects you can get started on today. To continue reading this post, click here.
After our 2025 Official was released last October, update builds have come out almost monthly. I asked our developer team to highlight the most notable new features in the update builds after the original October release, the most recent being 2025.32820 on May 6, 2026. Here is what they said.
https://www.youtube.com/live/byakKwIt1wA https://www.youtube.com/live/byakKwIt1wA?si=4zrgnG_VbDjcrqvI Stream Link - May 12th - 8PM CEST; 2PM ET Together with @dotsimulate we have been working hard on the TDFam framework, enabling creators to create new operator families in TouchDesigner wi
A few months ago, for fun and my own amusement in programming some ideas in TouchDesigner, I shared an operator for generating algorithmic music within a single CHOP operator. Inspired by the acid house sounds of the TB 303, I released my Acid 303.
