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…
Every industry has its own sets of trick and techniques for getting things done. One of the greatest bits of fun in our industry is trying to harness everyone else’s techniques in real time! A great technique that we recently talked about in one of our HQ PRO group coaching calls is how we can…
TouchDesigner is an extremely flexible piece of software. It can handle inputs and outputs better than almost any other software I can even think of. But it’s not perfect, and no software could be. There are constantly new pieces of hardware coming out, old pieces of hardware being discontinued, and everything in between. Especially with…
One the things I see often lacking in TouchDesigner work is natural camera movements. To be honest, I rarely see ANY camera movement! Lots of times this works, but many times, a ton of interest and depth can be added to a piece of work by adding camera motion. Developers and artists from all kinds…
One of the challenges of integrating Notch Blocks in TouchDesigner was that scaling up the interactivity could be tricky. If you needed 10 interactive touch points, whether from Kinect joints or touch screens, you would need to expose 10 different sets of transform positions. Then you’d import the Notch Block into TouchDesigner and have to…
[Editor’s note from Elburz: Hi all! Today we’ve got a great in-depth guest post from Crystal Jow about her process in making this piece of analog-digital hybrid art in TouchDesigner that is audio reactive. She goes through all the nuts and bolts and has kindly provided a TouchDesigner project file you can download and experiment…
Have you ever wondered how films get such beautiful colour looks? Have you tried to get Instagram-style filters in TouchDesigner? These kinds of things can be quite time intensive and difficult to do if you’re trying to manually use Level TOPs and can often end up in sprawling networks just to get what you thought…
On Saturday, we held the first ever Interactive & Immersive Championship. It was a blast. Wowwowowow. We had 29 talented TouchDesigner developers from all over the world competing across two different 1-hour challenges for their chance to show the world their work and win tons of prizes. We thought it’d be great to highlight some…
Who would have ever thought I’d be writing about how Skype might be a great option as a tool in our industry? Honestly, not me! But it happened. Microsoft added a pretty incredible feature to Skype that changes the game as far as I’m concerned. That feature is native NDI outputs of every single member…
We’ve been having a lot of fun with our new Twitch streams recently. We get to build interesting tools, learn new techniques, and work with the audience on their questions. One thing we thought could be interesting is building a native integration in TouchDesigner to stream in Twitch chat. Luckily, this isn’t hard to do…