TouchDesigner

Introducing The TouchDesigner Beginner Crash Course!

There are many times where we have to deal with large amounts of data in TouchDesigner. Whether you’re working with social media or large data sets provided by clients, you’ve likely experienced how tricky it can be to manage this data in DATs.

Building on last week's video of setting up RTX face tracking in TouchDesigner, we dive into how to use the data for building amazing content.

Face tracking used to be something you had to pay a lot of money for or use custom hardware for to get any kind of real-time & rich data. Now with machine learning it's easy and can be done on almost any hardware.

While a lot of work happens in real-time, it’s not uncommon that during the design process you’ll want to export still images from your project. These could be for a client review or they could be for internal documentation. Either way, there’s a few useful tricks you can keep in your back pocket!

If you told me a few years ago that you could get a real-time background subtraction with no special camera hardware and it can work just about anywhere, I’d be pretty skeptical. While not perfect by any stretch, Nvidia’s new machine-learning driven background removal is pretty fantastic.

We don't always have access to pristine and high resolution live camera feeds when working on events. Especially if you've worked in darker environments like concerts, night clubs, or public installations that run overnight, these can really limit you creatively.