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.
Real-Time Canvas is a live drawing app built for shows, workshops, and rapid creative prototyping. Every user gets a unique room (shareable URL) to collaborate with a team or integrate seamlessly with TouchDesigner.
The 2025 Official build of TouchDesigner includes the official introduction of Point Operators (POPs) to the program. That being said, they’re not the only exciting addition found in this release!
We take a look at two different approaches of creating concert visuals in TouchDesigner, using MIDI as well as audio data to animate the visual content. To continue reading this post, click here.
Niveau 1 – initiation Durée : 35 heures Lieu de la formation : Labo Flashback – 12 rue de la Fusterie 66000 Perpignan Effectif(s) formé(s): de 1 à 8 stagiaires A l’issue de la formation, les stagiaires pourront : Utiliser le logiciel TouchDesigner comme outil de création artistique et de diffus
In this blog, we provide some simple guidance on what to look for when deciding on a TouchDesigner server. To continue reading this post, click here.
Exited to announce that DotSimulate's StreamDiffusionTD component now supports the latest Stable Diffusion model, SDXL, along with IPAdapters so TD users can upload any reference image and guide your video's style - similar to LoRAs but with real-time control.
Hi folks, I work at Daydream. Among other things, we've built a free hosted version of StreamDiffusionTD to allow TD users to plug AI-powered visuals into their existing TouchDesigner workflows without needing to manage complex GPU setups manually.
Lately, I’ve been trying to simulate a black hole, though, of course, in a more fantastical way. Physically, I can’t really say how a black hole works, in many ways, it still remains a mystery.
Link to video-demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O7Mg2poqXdE Featuring: - Text-to-video & Image-to-video - 16:9 & 9:16 (720p/1080p) - Negative prompt + optional seed - Async auto-download + auto-playback - PDF setup guide included Three one-prompt commercials, one heroic banana.
We can use Python to get data, analyze it and use it in TouchDesigner for creative purposes. In this post, we have some fun and code some cool data visualization with Python in TouchDesigner. To continue reading this post, click here.
My first contact with the instancing technique was through TouchDesigner. After some brief research, I found its implementation origins in the early 2000s with DirectX and OpenGL, as an effort to optimize the heavy performance demands placed on the CPU.
We dive into some new ways to apply audio reactive techniques with the new TouchDesigner POP family. To continue reading this post, click here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsU94xsnKqE A complex AI live-style performance, introducing Camille. In her performance, gestures control harmony; AI lip/hand transfer aligns the avatar to the music.
Hellooo! I like living life on the edge — so I uninstalled Windows, switched to Linux (Ubuntu, not Arch — I’m all for the edge, just not the free fall), and now I’m running TouchDesigner using Bottles. What I’ve tested so far I've only tested native nodes for now (in v. 2023.12480 and v.
TouchDesigner excels at control systems, interactive logic, and compositing, but combining it with other software can significantly enhance creative and technical capabilities.
