TouchDesigner

There's so much you can with the new Kinect Azure! In this video, Elburz takes you through creating an interesting and scalable displacement effect with your Kinect Azure.

When it comes to application building in TouchDesigner, there are times that we want to keep our work and techniques away from prying eyes. Whatever the reason for preserving the privacy of your code, TouchDesigner has a great way of locking down your work and keeping it safe.

The Kinect Azure is a fantastic new sensor to use for your depth scanning and skeleton tracking purposes. Most people are surprised by how easily you can create a GPU accelerated point cloud of instanced geometry with it!

Thermal effects are common in almost all vfx systems and video servers. They’re fun and easy to use and can turn even boring content into something interesting by creating the illusion of thermal camera / heat scan.

Slitscan effects are incredibly fun and interactive. They can seem a lot harder than they are to build. In this video, Elburz shows you how to make a quick slitscan effect with only a few operators in TouchDesigner, which in itself can become the basis of much more complex and interesting effects.

Most people think Python is just for scripting state machines, parsing data, and other boring tasks! On the contrary, Python can play a fundamental role in content creation.

We had a great conversation in The HQ PRO today about the top skills you can put in your toolkit to help you get work and to jumpstart your career.

Many new developers and artist have trouble working with feedback loops in TouchDesigner and they can be slightly confusing to setup. Despite that, they're incredible effective tools to use for building interactive content.

Managing different scenes and moving between them in an efficient manner can seem like a daunting task. You start to think about all the different tools and networks you need to make just to get this simple functionality in your project. Never fear!