SITE is a one-night contemporary art festival held across the Goat Farm Arts Center campus in Atlanta. For the October 3, 2026 event, I designed and built a twelve-axis kinetic wall through (TBD) Design as part of Room as Instrument.
Hey community! My new book is finally out! TouchDesigner Fundamentals 01 Cover Front After years of teaching TouchDesigner, I kept hearing the same questions: Why should I use this Operator instead of that one? What do I need to change if I want a different result? What should I learn first?
TouchDesigner Starter Bundle — Beginner through Intermediate, Winter 26/27 The NODE Institute is running a TouchDesigner Starter Bundle this winter: the Beginner Class straight through to the Intermediate Class, in one enrolment, 15% off booking them separately.
Derivative's TDMCP is the official MCP server for TouchDesigner. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI agents such as Claude or Codex connect to other software and work with it through a defined set of tools.
The Beginner Class taught you to think in nodes. This one teaches you to ship. The Beginner Class runs on playful exercises — one way of thinking per week, on screen fast. That's how you learn the tool. It isn't how the tool gets used.
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.
Where the immutable persists, the ephemeral must employ change. Media and Architecture - a perfect contrast? Buildings today are no longer defined solely by what is fixed and physical.
In the landscape of artificial intelligence, new systems and concepts are constantly emerging, ready to be integrated into our creative processes. Let’s explore some of the most effective AI tools to pair with TouchDesigner. To continue reading this post, click here.
Stream NDI depth video, ARKit face & body tracking, motion, audio, and speech from your iPhone (and Apple Watch) into TouchDesigner over Wi-Fi. No cables. No cloud. No accounts.
