Create Music Visuals with TouchDesigner / Going Further - On-demand

Make visuals with particle systems and PBR materials in TouchDesigner.

Course Instructor: Masha Rozhnova

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TouchDesigner is a tool that gains popularity among musicians who want to create visuals for their music and do audio-visual experiments. The goal of this course is to show how one can start with TouchDesigner and not risk being discouraged. You will learn the basic concepts underpinning creation and rendering of 3D geometries, what different parameters of PBR materials mean and how particle systems work. The concepts you learn will be used to create shiny and noisy audio-reactive visualizations that can be plugged into your live performance straight away.

What you'll learn

  • Session 1: SOP generators and filters, Operators that use CPU and GPU, Geometry Instancing and Connecting Trigger CHOP to different frequencies of an audio-spectrum
  • Session 2: FBX and OBJ formats, Polyreduce and Subdivide SOPs, Delete SOP, Transform SOP, The theory of Physically-Based Rendering and Shading, PBR maps and PBR setup in Touch Designer
  • Session 3: Particle SOP inputs (emitter, attractor, force), Particle SOP parameters, Differences between CPU and GPU particle systems and Navigating TouchDesigner Resources

Requirements

  • A computer and internet connection
  • A webcam and mic
  • A Zoom account
  • A three button mouse or Apple Track Pad appropriately configured
  • TouchDesigner installed
  • If your on Mac please check TouchDesigner can run on your system (i.e. has basic GPU requirements such as Intel HD4000 or better)

Course content

  • ---- Workshop Project File
  • ---- Additional Resources
  • ---- Part 1 - Instancing
  • ---- Solution to Practice 1
  • ---- Part 2 - Changing individual parameters of instances
  • ---- Part 3 - Audio Analysis using Audio Spectrum
  • ---- Part 4 - Building visuals
  • ---- Workshop files
  • ---- Additional Resources
  • ---- Part 1 - PBR set up
  • ---- Part 2 - PBR maps
  • ---- Part 3 - Import 3D assets into TouchDesigner
  • ---- Part 4 - Building visuals
  • ---- Part 5 - Importing different 3D formats
  • ---- Workshop files
  • ---- TouchDesigner Resources
  • ---- Part 1 - Setting up Particle emitters
  • ---- Part 2 - Parameters of a Particle SOP
  • ---- Part 3 - Rendering a Particle System
  • ---- Part 4 - Attractors and Trace SOP
  • ---- Part 5 - Building Visuals
  • ---- Part 6 - Further Resources

Who is this course for

  • The course will equip you with tools and maps which will make your further TouchDersigner journey more productive and fun.

Useful links

Link: https://derivative.ca/download

About the workshop leader

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.

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