Download We are happy to announce the release of 2022 Official which marks the start of a new era for TouchDesigner. This year’s release orbits around a new core in TouchDesigner, a completely new graphics engine bringing us into the next chapter of TouchDesigner’s journey.
Showcase
DOWNLOAD We are very pleased to announce TouchDesigner's 2021 Official Update and tell you about all the exciting features of this release. This year's update touches (pun intended) so many parts of TouchDesigner.
2021 Official Update
DOWNLOAD We are delighted to kick off this new year (and a new decade!) with an Official update that is the culmination of our development over the past 6 months. There are dozens of new features and hundreds of improvements, we are sure there is something for everyone to get excited about!
2020 Official Update
Control Room 42 (CR42) a project from RTBF, public broadcaster for the French speaking part of Belgium, gives broadcasting's traditionally hardware-based control room a radical makeover enabled by TouchDesigner in ways its designer Hugo Ortiz thought impossible a few years ago.
Control Room 42 Ushers in the Future of Broadcasting
INFRATONAL is the audiovisual project of Parisian multidisciplinary artist Louk Amidou who uses hand gesture to perform both music and visuals in the most mesmerizing compositions while exploring the links between the human and the algorithms.
Exploring Humanized Algorithmic Art with INFRATONAL

After 4 years of research and development and on the Full Moon of August, Rui Gato released his passion project GeoMusica, an incredible tool that enables one to make music with geometry.
Creating Music from Geometry with GeoMusica

Greetings all and first a HUGE thanks from the Derivative team for all the amazing assets, tutorials and countless incentives to learn more TD you have been seeding into the community.
TouchDesigner Online Events While Flattening the Curve = Win/Win

Think and Sense produced a remarkable large-scale point cloud-based exhibit and media control system for an LED wall at the entrance of the new Tokorozawa campus of the media company Kadokawa Corporation near Tokyo.
Point Cloud Mastery from Think and Sense

We’re excited to announce the launch of a new educational portal: the TouchDesigner Curriculum at learn.derivative.ca made in collaboration with SudoMagic. This resource was built to help educators and learners get started with TouchDesigner.
Introducing the TouchDesigner Curriculum

We are continually impressed by how many of you have created your own applications in TouchDesigner to operate and perform live shows - Large and small, these represent a tremendous assortment of personalized tools made with TouchDesigner.
TouchDesigner Performance Interfaces

Moscow-based Studio SETUP design and build stages, installations and multimedia works of massive architectural proportions that seem to exist in some futuristic time/space.
With Studio SETUP it's Not Just About the Light

It is with great pleasure that we bring you our interview with the very talented Austrian artist MONOCOLOR (Marian Essl) whose sublime audio-visual performance Latent Space impressed us to no end in Montreal, reframing and invigorating our ideas of what could be realized in the fulldome environment
MONOCOLOR, Latent Space and the Fulldome Environment

Less than 5 months before the premiere of his new Cube V3 show Canadian electronic music producer and DJ deadmau5 aka Joel Zimmerman paid a visit at the Derivative office in Toronto with the plan to build the entire show from scratch in a real time environment, specifically with TouchDesigner.
Made with Love in TouchDesigner V99 C:\Users\deadmau5>

Meet Collectif Scale, a Paris-based group of artists and creatives from various callings who joined forces in 2010 with a shared passion for creating state-of-the-art installations and performances that have been quite aptly described as the ‘ballets of robots’.
Collectif Scale's Astounding "Ballet of Robots"

the.collapse is a live performance created by the prolific multi-disciplinary artist Julien Bayle in early 2021 based on his eponymous album released on ETER Lab in 2020 during the pandemic crisis.
Julien Bayle's the.collapse

There's something enormously compelling about following an artist's Instagram dailies - watching the progression, anticipating what they'll come up with next, wondering how they can maintain such a rigorous creative schedule...
Daily Drawings, Always Real-time with @smooth_isfast

We recently caught up with Dublin-based creative developer and sound and media artist Pauric Freeman who first came to our attention via his very compelling series of live a/v Instagram posts made with TouchDesigner and an Eurorack.
Pauric Freeman On Working with Sound, Image, Input Devices and Human Perception

Bileam Tschepe aka elekktronaut is a Berlin-based artist and educator who creates audio-reactive, interactive and organic digital artworks, systems and installations in TouchDesigner, collaborating with and teaching people worldwide.
Bileam Tschepe on Teaching and Learning TouchDesigner

With the release of the TouchEngine API this week we are very pleased to concurrently feature the first large-scale integration of TouchEngine by Front Pictures with their powerful universal show production tool Screenberry, an advanced media hub with rich automation and media management capabiliti
Introducing TouchEngine and Front Pictures' Screenberry Integration

Earlier this year Woodbury’s Applied Computer Science - Media Arts program was invited by the Getty Museum to design an installation and exhibition for their College Night event.
A Night at the Getty: What I See Is What You Get

With the release of their twelfth studio album Unlimited Love, iconic American rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers launched their Unlimited Love World Tour 2022 with 46 sold-out stadium-capacity shows (thus far).
How SETUP Did a World Tour For the Red Hot Chili Peppers


Salvador Dalí once wrote, "If someday I may die, though it is unlikely, I hope the people in the cafes will say, ‘Dalí has died, but not entirely." Now 30 years after his alleged death, in a precedent-setting exhibition where a museum has used artificial intelligence-based techniques and TouchDesig
Deepfake Salvador Dalí Interacts with Museum Visitors, Takes Selfies!

Bitwig Studio is a powerful DAW (digital audio workstation), live music performance tool and show controller.
Introducing TDBitwig - Bridging TouchDesigner and Bitwig

Produced in 2003 by Derivative with architectural visionaries Herzog and de Meuron for the then-brand new Prada Epicenter Store in Tokyo, this was the longest-running TouchDesigner installation as of 2019.
TouchDesigner at Prada Epicenter Tokyo with Herzog & de Meuron Advance the Art of Architectural Visuals

The year is 2021, a pandemic rages across the lands and things are weird and limited. It’s also 3021 and things are even weirder and more limited on the DandiDoesIt LPVG (Live Performance Video Game), a self-described "anti-capitalist satire" streaming on Twitch.
Dandi Does It! Again and Again... and Again...

Experiential Design outfit Volvox Labs' magnificent Tessellated Tetra Sculpture is a meandering kinetic installation spanning nearly 100 ft with 300 individual computer-driven motors, and 150 programmed LED lights.
The Award-winning Tessellated Tetra Sculpture from VVOX

As most of the citizens of this planet find ourselves quarantined or self-isolated unsure of what the future will bring this recent poem by Philippe Dubost created with the Pixelstick and TouchDesigner resonates profoundly. "It's going to be ok. They say...
Philippe Dubost's "It's Going to Be OK" and a Video Light Painting Tutorial

Petko Tanchev is a media artist and creative technologist with an expansive and influential career as stage designer for theatre and opera.
The Mastery of Digital Scenography with Petko Tanchev

Finding himself in isolation with a couple of Mirobots, Matthew Wachter wasted no time setting up a rich tableau controlled via TouchDesigner and streaming on Twitch incorporating robots, big lips, googly eyes and a rainforest backdrop complete with Tiger King tiger ;) You can make them kiss with te
Social Distance Kissing with Matthew Wachter

All the 120+ screens you see in Alien Covenant were simultaneously driven on-set by Soma CG's application MOTHER, made entirely in TouchDesigner.
Soma CG Drives All Screen Visuals On-Set for Ridley Scott's Alien Covenant

Kazoe Nobuaki is a member of the Tokyo-based VJ REZ team and the maker of the powerful visual show performance tool DEVISION. He is already a 'veteran' VJ on the Tokyo club-circuit with his adrenalin-pumping, high-octane visual style.
Kazoe Nobuaki's Sensational and Highly Adaptive DEVISION VJ System

While working on the soon to be published article BauHaus 100 Opening Celebration, an event that took place this April in Weimar that included 2 massive TouchDesigner-driven installations by Daniel Dalfovo, Stefan Kraus, Stephan von Tresckow and Gregor Sauer as well as the live visual work of Stanis
Why the Bauhaus Would Have Loved TouchDesigner


Today February 18 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of Derivative. I joined the company in 2002, almost 18 years ago, and there are many great tales to tell.