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.
This blog post serves as a handy starter guide with tips to help you plan, organize, and maintain efficiency when undertaking a larger-scale TouchDesigner project. To continue reading this post, click here.
In this post, we dive into the benefits of working creatively with both TOPs and CHOPs in TouchDesigner. To continue reading this post, click here.
https://youtu.be/XDQxaWc3piQ I spent almost two months full-time developing this controller integration between TD and the Intech Studio VSN1, and this is only the start with more MIDI integrations coming! Learn more here!
The TouchDesigner community has grown significantly over the last few years, and you can now find both virtual and in-person meetups around the world. In this post, we share people and organizations that host TouchDesigner meetups. To continue reading this post, click here.
Announcing the Spring 2026 Community Challenge: DRÆM SEQUENCE Powered by PWNISHER aka Clinton Jones and open to the entire TouchDesigner community. https://youtu.be/ElY0G99viSs?si=QtwuZysiq9iVt9nf What’s the theme? DRÆM SEQUENCE asks you to bring rhythm and tempo to life in 3D.
Stay tuned for PWNISHER DRÆM SEQUENCE Community Challenge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElY0G99viSs
In this post we explore unconventional ways to use cameras as creative input devices in TouchDesigner, with a few examples and techniques. To continue reading this post, click here.
Möbius Transformation for POPs Free on GitHub A POP Operator(GLSL) that applies 4D Möbius transformations to 3D geometry via stereographic projection. How It Works 1. 3D points are projected onto a 4D hypersphere 2. Points are rotated in 4D space (XY and ZW planes)
Exhausted all of your usual go-to techniques and looking for some creative inspiration for working with SOPs? We’ve put this post together for you! We look at creating generative shapes and patterns with a variety of SOPs, including the LSystem SOP, the Superquad SOP, the Divide SOP, and more.
Whether you are a professional coder or a beginner, every patch can benefit from a few life-saving components, and this is where the new TouchDesigner Python Environment Manager comes into play. In this post, we take a closer look at the new TDPyEnvManager component.
Description This post is a technical overview of how we built the rhythm game system for the XEEKIN project, which was introduced in a previous post.A video of the project can be found at the link below.
In this post, we take a look at some TouchDesigner projects and tools that inspired the community in 2025. To continue reading this post, click here.
We discuss when to integrate hardware into TouchDesigner, the typical types of hardware, and how to have them communicate with your network. To continue reading this post, click here.
This post explores why learning TouchDesigner is essential for aspiring interactive and immersive creators, how to choose the right course, and the various ways to support your learning journey. To continue reading this post, click here.
In this post, we cover a number of tips for working with projectors and TouchDesigner, by looking at what built-in tools you can use to accomplish common projector-related tasks including keystoning/warping, projection mapping, and more. To continue reading this post, click here.
