We’ve been getting deeper and deeper into the build of our datamoshing component in TouchDesigner. We’re finally digging into GLSL code and porting over the individual examples from our reference material, and by the end of this post, we’ll have a working shader starting to come together! Spoiler alert! If you haven’t read part one…
Datamoshing is a super fun effect to build and has been increasingly finding more creative usages both in real-time and rendered media. In part #1 of this series, we covered the high level implementation approach. Now it’s time to dive into TouchDesigner and start building our datamoshing component! Read part #1 There have been a…
We have two live group sessions in The HQ PRO every month which are a lot of fun. In our last group session, we had some great business topics we discussed all around managing clients, dealing with projects that could change scope, billing cycles, and more. I thought our discussions were so fruitful that I’ve…
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. In this blog post, I’ll show you how you can take advantage…
On August 21-22 we held our 2nd Interactive & Immersive Championships. It was an amazing event and we saw 16 amazing developers and artists create works of art that the judges could barely believe was possible in 90 minutes! In this post, we’re going to recap some of those great works and show you where…
Datamoshing is a super fun effect to build and has been increasingly finding more creative usages both in real-time and rendered media. Implementing it can be a bit tricky though and in this 2-part blog series, we’ll look at a fun way you can build a datamoshing effect in TouchDesigner. What is Datamoshing? Datamoshing is…
While a lot of work happens in real-time, it’s not uncommon that during the design process you’ll want to export an image from your TouchDesigner 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! First…
It’s all too common that you arrive to your installation or gig, setup your computer, and realize the video signal drop is 50 meters away. This usually becomes a bit of an annoying sticking point where you have to pack everything up and move it to a usually inconvenient spot, setup your rig again, and…
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. In TouchDesigner, we have native access to the…
There are tons and tons of tiny techniques inside of TouchDesigner that are easy to miss. One of the techniques I find most developers don’t take advantage of is Grouping in SOPs. It allows you to create sub-groups of points or primitives inside of a single SOP and then selectively decide which group certain SOPs…