Creative Coding

Getting Started with TouchDesigner

Led by Masha Rozhnova

Instructor

✓Becoming familiar with the User Interface
✓Exploring TouchDesigner’s building blocks
✓Constructing dynamic visual effects

Get started learning interactive media with TouchDesigner and build your own visual effect content.

✓Total duration: 3h 16m
✓Video lessons: 13
✓Resources: 11

LevelBeginner

Duration3h 16m of video content

CohortSelf-paced video

LanguageEnglish

Course Overview

TouchDesigner is a powerful tool for creating live performances, installations, real time visuals and complex digital systems. In this series of workshops, you’ll learn the basic functioning of TD’s node-based workflow and how to use them to create media, use the data to manipulate content and how to organize and navigate your TouchDesigner networks.

What You'll Achieve

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Becoming familiar with the User Interface
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Exploring TouchDesigner’s building blocks
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Constructing dynamic visual effects

Who is this course for?

✓Aspiring visual and media artists who’d like to get started with TouchDesigner

Requirements

✓A computer with Internet connection
✓A three-button mouse or to configure Apple Track Pad appropriately
✓TouchDesigner (free version suffices)
✓If you’re on Mac please check TouchDesigner can run on your system (i.e. has basic GPU requirements such as Intel HD4000 or better)

Course Syllabus

Course Overview

1 lesson

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Course Overview

TouchDesigner set up instructions

Discover the TouchDesigner interface

3 videos, 3 resources

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Discover the TouchDesigner interface

Part 1 Files - please download before watching videos — GSWTD_week1_worksheet.pdf

Discover the TouchDesigner interface

Lesson 1 - The Interface & Operators

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Discover the TouchDesigner interface

Part 1 Files - please download before watching videos — GSWTD_week1.toe

Discover the TouchDesigner interface

Lesson 2 - Texture Operators (TOPs)

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Discover the TouchDesigner interface

Part 1 Files - please download before watching videos — TDshortcuts.pdf

Discover the TouchDesigner interface

Lesson 3 - Channel Operators (CHOPs)

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Surface operators and rendering

5 videos, 3 resources, 1 lesson

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Surface operators and rendering

Part 2 Files - please download before watching videos — GSWTD_week2_worksheet.pdf

Surface operators and rendering

Lesson 1 - Surface Operators (SOPs)

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Surface operators and rendering

Part 2 Files - please download before watching videos — GSWTD_week2.toe

Surface operators and rendering

Lesson 2 - Rendering

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Surface operators and rendering

Lesson 3 - Materials I

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Surface operators and rendering

Lesson 4 - Materials II

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Surface operators and rendering

Lesson 5 - Saving .tox files & pallette

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Surface operators and rendering

Additional Resources

Surface operators and rendering

Interactive Project Examples

Connect audio with TouchDesigner & Intro to Graphics Instancing

2 videos, 2 resources

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Connect audio with TouchDesigner & Intro to Graphics Instancing

Part 3 Files - please download before watching videos — GSWTD_week3_worksheet.pdf

Connect audio with TouchDesigner & Intro to Graphics Instancing

Lesson 1 - Audio Basics

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Connect audio with TouchDesigner & Intro to Graphics Instancing

Part 3 Files - please download before watching videos — GSWTD_week3.toe

Connect audio with TouchDesigner & Intro to Graphics Instancing

Lesson 2 - Instancing Part 1

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More Instancing & Audio-reactive visuals

3 videos, 3 resources, 1 lesson

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More Instancing & Audio-reactive visuals

Part 4 Files - please download before watching videos — GSWTD_week4_worksheet.pdf

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Lesson 1 - Instancing Part 2

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Part 4 Files - please download before watching videos — GSWTD_week4.toe

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Lesson 2 - Audio & Instancing combined

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Lesson 3 - DATs Overview

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Additional Resources: Learn Python Expressions

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TouchDesigner Resources

Meet Your Instructor

Masha Rozhnova

Instructor

Dancing Pixels (Masha Rozhnova) is a London based artist who creates audio-visual performances and videos for musicians. For the past three years she has been using TouchDesigner as the main tool for content creation, show control and as an engine to enable interaction with the audience. She performed at Live Performers Meeting in Rome, at New River studios and Crux events in London.