Notch is a fantastic tool for content creation but that doesn’t mean you can get away without getting technical. When you’re working on large projects with high-resolutions and framerates, it’s important to make sure you technically prepare your Notch projects to run smoothly and consistently. If that wasn’t reason, Notch Blocks are often embedded in…
There’s a funny thing that happens to intermediates and pros once you’ve been using TouchDesigner for a few years: you stop reading release notes for new builds because you have real work to do. The problem with this is that sometimes new features and big changes roll out and you won’t hear about until much…
Let’s get it out of the way: we all wish we could export an executable app from TouchDesigner. While we can’t do that now, there are some good techniques we can use to make packaging small projects as we ship them out to customers or move them between different systems. That’s where TouchDesigner’s VFS (virtual…
Engine COMP is shaping up in a way that will truly change the way we make TouchDesigner projects. The ability to control what aspects of our projects are on the main CPU thread or on a different one without having to go through the headache of creating totally new TouchDesigner projects is one of the…
In my last post, I talked about how the Engine COMP is one of the features I was most excited about in the 2020 release of TouchDesigner. It has the power to revolutionize how we approach building projects of all sizes. A simple explanation: the Engine COMP allows you to choose what parts of your…
It’s happened to you. You know the pain. You travel a long distance for an installation or project you’re working on. You try to get to the job site or you’re waiting for dinner and BAM! You lose all your energy. You just want to lie down for a few minutes. You feel like it’s…
Hi all, Elburz here for a quick intro. I had the pleasure of meeting Zoe years ago in Los Angeles and Zoe gave me a wonderful tour of the UCLA REMAP facilities. Since then, we’ve kept in touch over the years. Zoe has been really delivering some amazing projects and creating a lot of really…
Why is forecasting a project’s length hard? After years of experience, forecasting a TouchDesigner project’s length is still hard. It always will be. It’s the nature of the beast. The nature of being on the generally cutting-edge of media technology and trying to use the latest-and-greatest gear and techniques. Sometimes you’ll miscalculate how long something…
The power of standardization, compartmentalization, and decoupling.
How to get the most out of your budget TouchDesigner installation I know over the years I’ve been adamant about using only the best gear you can get such as Quadro GPUs. This will almost always save you a lot of headache in the long run. But what do you do if you flat out…