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.
All of the TouchDesigner developers I know are always working on tools. These tools may be for personal experimentation or critical tooling for your company projects. Either way, you may come to a point where you want to share your work.
It’s that time of year again. In fairness, it feels like there’s a holiday to buy stuff almost every other month.
The first time you use any kind of hardware can be daunting. There are new terms, new techniques, new bottlenecks to your workflow, new people to deal with, and all kinds of crazy things that you maybe never even expected. LED walls are no exception to this.
A tricky topic that most people don’t want to talk about: rates. It can be a personal and touchy topic for even high-end and veteran developers, as if they were going to be judged based on it.
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You might be thinking to yourself "Why are we talking about computer security?
It is pretty common to be on a last-minute gig and need to drum up a bunch of visual effects and looks to fill time during your event or performance or similar. Building these yourself may be the ideal option, but it probably isn’t realistic given the budget and amount of time before the event.
Materials in TouchDesigner used to be such a simple decision. You had Phong MAT and Constant MAT. That was most of your decision. Sometimes you might have reached for the Point Sprite MAT in situations with particle systems. But that was it!
For those who don't know Simple Mixer is a real-time tox and video mixing tool built entirely in TouchDesigner. It's currently tested and working in 099 stable builds and I try to maintain it to the best of my ability and respond quickly to new builds.
Are you trying to use high quality materials in TouchDesigner? Are you finding your TouchDesigner renders aren’t looking up to snuff? Have you tried jiggling all the cables to no avail? You’re not alone. Many folks have trouble understanding the requirements of a high quality render.
We release helpful tool "ZIGSIM PRO". And we already released "ZIGSIM" (update soon...). ZIGSIM is smartphone application that send sensor parameters in smartphone to PC by OSC or JSON UDP. Between difference is some Functions. "NDI" and "ARKit" is only PRO. Details was writen in the doc.
Over the last few weeks you’ve probably been greeted by a new and shiny website for Derivative’s TouchDesigner. It’s been a long time request from users and Derivative have delivered. But why do we need a whole blog post about it? Well there’s a few reasons.
We’ve all been in installations where you need to send textures between apps or process. It may be because of limitations of a process, maybe because we’re using different apps to do different processes.
Something I hear often is the difficulty in doing TouchDesigner blob tracking. “It’s too slow!” or “the tracking isn’t working!” or “I don’t know how to use it!”.
Desde Berlín, el artista colombiano Carlos Serrano, junto con su estudio +PLAY en Bogotá, nos comparte el proceso de desarrollo de la pieza audiovisual PENUMBRA, donde explora paisajes por medio de técnicas de fotogrametría, aplicado en formato FullDome en TIEMPO-REAL.
