Here’s the harsh truth about reality: If you don’t take care of yourself, no one else will. That’s just how it is at the end of the day. Everyone is busy and everyone has their own set of things to deal with. In the grand scheme of our careers, we may never think about taking…
What a term! Convex Decomposition! It’s meaty! It’s weighty! Why do we even need this word? Well, it’s a term you’re going to need to know if you’ve completed our TouchDesigner tutorial for beginners and want to get into more advanced TouchDesigner physics workflows in your projects. So let’s skip the chatter and dive in!…
This probably sounds obvious to many people, “Of course you should have a video reel!” But the reality is the video reels I’ve seen in my time suffer from a mixed bag of problems such as: And that’s just the stuff I thought of off the top of my head. So in this post I’m…
Hot topics on hot topics! Discipline. One of the most important attributes to being successful in competitive industries yet I never hear anyone come up to me and tell me it’s one of their best skills. Nobody ever talks about boring old discipline. It’s arguably one of my top skills next to being patient. And…
Projection mapping system created in Touchdesigner using 2D/3D animation and generative content. Description This projection mapping system was created for «Amazona» a night club located inside the Movistar Arena in Bogotá, Colombia. The system contains 15 scenes inspired in the Colombian amazonian rain forest, its animals, plants and spirits. This visual scenographies where made using a…
You might hear me harping on lately something along the lines of “You’re all too obsessed with GLSL!!” as I shake my fist at the sky. Even with that said, I know the value of GLSL and it’s high demand in our industry, so I thought I’d share two techniques that are useful in modern…
The Web Render TOP was a hugely demanded feature when it first came out. Before its release, getting web pages rendering inside of TouchDesigner was needlessly difficult and involved other applications running in the background sending textures over Spout or other similar protocols. A strange thing that happened though was how little I was seeing…
I’ll be blunt. I see a lot of marketing materials that just plain suck. In the grand scheme of things, I usually work with people on other things, but unless you’ve heard me say “wow, nice marketing materials” then you’re probably on the “not great” list. The problem I have with poor marketing materials is…
I’ve been asked by different members of my HQ PRO training program a few different variations of the same underlying question: How do I protect the things I’m building? This is a bit of a touchy topic. Not only that, but it’s also a vast gray area for all parties. There are good reasons you…
Sensational headline alert! But also, it’s true. Have you wondered why you never hear back from clients who ask for a quote? Have you wondered why you meet people and then never hear from them again? Do you ever wonder why you lose so many bids to super boring competition? You might not have thought…