What the SLA? You may or may not have heard the term SLA before in your work. This may be because you’re working more on the arts side of things, for festivals, or short-run installations and events. On the long-term and permanent installation side of things, SLA’s are a key contract in the pipeline that…
Do you need tricks for teaching technical topics? I’ve spent a lot of my life teaching different topics. In high school, I was a french tutor. In university, I was teaching music. Now I teach a lot of technical topics mostly around TouchDesigner, which is such a varied piece of software that it involves explaining…
That on-site life We’ve all had our share of installation experiences, probably mostly comedic and crazy in nature. There’s constant chaos, shifting deliverables, mix-ups and confusion…and in all that, we’re still expected to get everything done without delays or additional costs. So how can you still be an on-site professional? Learn names (and be nice)…
What’s open office hours? About 2 weeks ago we held another round of open office hours in which anyone was able to sign up for a 30 minute time slot to speak with me 1-on-1 about whatever they wanted. The topics ranged from open source to LEDs to turnkey products! In this post I’m going…
What is open office hours? We had a successful holiday give away last year of some free consulting time, where people got an hour of our time to chat through their work, a potential project, or get some TouchDesigner help. To continue the benefit of that, we held an open office hours again a few…
What is a difficult situation? Software development and creative coding isn’t always fun, artistic, and intellectually stimulating. Unfortunately, the real world exists and it is full of complications and indecision. This can lead to some difficult situations that could bring the good times to a halt. One of the main difficulties that we face on…
Interactive installation OS?? Who knew that I’d have to think about what OS we’re using on our interactive installation in 2018? Who knew that there’d be OS drama? Windows 10 is the latest and greatest Windows version, but even as such, many professionals are still using Windows 7. We’ll get into the nitty gritty of…
What is nVC2? nVC2 is the nVoid Component Cloud. nVC2 is a drag-and-drop TouchDesigner component library made for both beginners and professionals, with a wide range of tools, visual effects, and utilities that will help beginners create impact quickly while also helping professionals in their daily workflows. Why use it? nVC2 grew organically because of many…
Designing in your own mind It’s easy to ignore your user in the design process. Computer scientists or programmers entering the field of immersive and experiential media might find themselves focusing on creating good code or worrying about the complexity of the software (and how to avoid scaling issues). Artists might be focused on presentation…
The difficulty of optimizing I did an online workshop focused on optimizing projects in TouchDesigner last week because I think it’s a hugely under-discussed topic. Optimization is a tool and thought process that should be introduced more and more to new and intermediate users. The biggest difference between optimization and “regular programming” is the method…