TouchDesigner Lessons

Where the secret docs are hidden!

Where’s this knowledge from? As many of you may know, I’ve recently launched a new TouchDesigner educational and coaching resource, The HQ PRO. I’ve already worked with a bunch of my subscribers to get through some of their TouchDesigner challenges, and a few of them I thought would be useful to share with the community…

What is the TouchDesigner Community? Whether you’re new or a veteran of the TouchDesigner community, you’ve probably heard about the community in one way or another. There’s a good reason for that. I think the TouchDesigner community is one of the best and most interesting professional communities around. Between the constant support, sharing, friendships, and…

What are these TouchDesigner templates about? As we approach the end of the year, I decided it would be a nice thing to release some TouchDesigner template projects that would be useful to develops across a range of skill levels. They cover a bunch of techniques ranging from windowing concepts to web APIs to render…

Why do we need to own our networks? Have you ever been using TouchDesigner and have no idea why things are happening in your network? Has your output been not what you were expecting? Do you have a bug somewhere or events happening out of order and you have no idea why? This normally happens…

TouchDesigner CHOP Tongue Twisters TouchDesigner is one of the most powerful softwares around in the field of interactive technology and immersive media. The amount of different inputs and outputs that TouchDesigner can handle is out of this world. But that doesn’t mean all of it comes easily, especially if you’re coming from other software packages…

Why TouchDesigner videos? After years of working on some of the largest TouchDesigner installations in the world, I wanted to make a new platform for high quality video tutorials and workshops. I’ve seen a lot of success and excitement around the few online live workshops I’ve hosted, but even with those there were a ton…

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…

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…

What is starting from scratch? We often hear bakers or chefs talking about making things “from scratch.” They use this term when they make all of the recipe from the base ingredients and didn’t use any pre-made elements. Usually you pay more to have something made from scratch and it takes longer to make. Over…