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.
So you want a MIDI controller in your TouchDesigner immersive toolkit. What should you get? What features matter when you’re shopping? In this blog, we’ll go over the key things to look for in a MIDI controller for TD work and give a few of our recommendations.
The workflow for preparing content for LED walls in TouchDesigner is a little bit different than for traditional displays. In this post, we’ll cover some LED wall basics and work through two examples that showcase how to set content up in TouchDesigner for display on LED walls.
Live demo: https://maestra-monitor-production.up.railway.app/ — real entities advertising right now, open it and you'll see them.
PONK (Pathes Over NetworK) is a minimal protocol to transfer 2D colored pathes from a source to a receiver.
We cover the basics of using Kantan Mapper for projection mapping in TouchDesigner, by working through an example project where we create content and project it onto a virtual building. To continue reading this post, click here.
A partir de mayo, en Nexa Sur Lab comenzamos nuestra primera etapa de formación orientada al desarrollo creativo en tiempo real, combinando arte, tecnología y pensamiento computacional creativo aplicado al desarrollo audiovisual. Lanzamos una serie de cursos diseñados como puertas de entrada clar
Nexa Sur Lab is a Latin American initiative focused on building a stronger, more connected ecosystem around real-time creative technologies.
Feedback is a topic that comes up a lot within TouchDesigner, but it can feel confusing at first. So, let’s take a deep look at feedback loops to give you a good understanding of how they work.
Full written breakdown of the required steps to convert any animated model from (almost) all FromSoftware games, now freely available for you to read on my Patreon at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pte-fluid-solver-154246479
Missing inspiration lately? Take a look at our list of creative prompts for your TouchDesigner project! To continue reading this post, click here.
Act 1: Two Worlds I suppose every generation romanticizes its own adolescence, and mine is no exception. For us, the early 2000s were metamorphic. The web itself was so young — experimental, transient, free, surprising, crazy. The Wild West Web. LAN parties and Monster energy drinks.
In this post, we cover practical tips and features that can help elevate your TouchDesigner workflow and bring you up from a beginner to intermediate user. To continue reading this post, click here.
Creative technologist Dom Davis shares why TouchDesigner is a game-changer for DJ visuals, and some methods and techniques he uses for creating visual content. To continue reading this post, click here.
Daydream, the team that powers the hosted version of StreamDiffusionTD, is running a builder program in March for creative technologists creating VJ shows, live concert visuals, immersive installations, visual music, and beyond.
TouchDesigner 中文辅助系统 本项目使用 Python 构建的 TouchDesigner 中文辅助系统，旨在帮助中文用户更轻松地学习和使用 TouchDesigner，降低语言门槛，让中文社区更好地理解各类元件的含义与用法。 ##功能介绍 1. 顶部菜单本地化 对 TouchDesigner 界面顶部的菜单与设置项进行中文本地化，方便用户快速找到所需功能，无需逐一对照英文文档。 2. OP 创建对话框（中英双语辅助） 在 OP Create Dialog 中，保留原有英文名称的同时附加中文译名，以中英对照的形式呈现，方便用户在熟悉英文术语的同时理解元件含义。
