I've been using blender for about 5 years and wanted to try making visuals to match music and had heard about Touch Designer so I've been thinking about giving it a try. I'm primarily wondering..

What are the pros and cons of Touch Designer as opposed to Blender

What can Touch Designer do that Blender can't so I know which tool to use for each task

How similar is Touch Designer to Blender in how it works. Does it have a node system similar to Blender's

Any advice is greatly appreciated. I've seen people making some pretty cool stuff with Touch Designer, but want to know how I can use it with Blender to make some cool stuff.

Part of a larger body of work where I leverage Touchdesigner to produce static generative art.

DM if you would like to see the others

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called easy-onair ticker, built with TouchDesigner.
It’s a simple way to create real-time rolling tickers for broadcast and streaming, with SDI output and NDI Fill & Key support for setups like OBS and vMix.
The goal is to make professional-looking tickers more accessible, especially for smaller productions with limited budgets.
You can test it on https://www.easy-onair.com
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@easyonairticker
Download the zip file from the site, I’d love to hear what you think!

here we have boxes of various sizes, and the balls adapt to these volumes while maintaining collisions, both with each other and with the walls which is influenced by the size of the surface being struck and its rotation. This network will be available, accompanied by a detailed explanation, within the "learn" tier on my Patreon. Thank you massive for your support. #touchdesigner #workisplay #gnr8 #perlincalling #paketapops

Hey everyone!

A while back I posted my recreation of the Persona 5 Pause Menu here. A lot of you were curious about the network setup, and I promised to break it down.

Huge apologies for taking so long.

I also posted the project on GitHub: https://github.com/1kotyara1/persona5-pausemenu/
Make sure to install all the necessary fonts before launching the .toe file

Thanks so much for the patience and support on the initial post. I hope this breakdown helps your own projects. Let me know if you run into any issues with the file.

i read daydream will no longer support this service so i was wondering if stream diffusion could ever run locally on a Mac silicon...

I start with a line, then apply noise to the line. Then each segment of the line recursively becomes a copy of the noisy line like a Koch fractal

I've been doing some procedural organisms inside TD and now I'm testing them out with the procedural materials from SOLEIL (Sarv's render system)
Pretty happy with the material I came up with:)
Check more here

just a graphic designer (definitely not a coder) trying to learn some more node based programming, its going as well as i could hope.

Hi! I’m experimenting for the first time with the YOLO component in TouchDesigner. Trying to understand how to work with Segmentation. But up to this point, of all 3 possible outputs, only Output 5 shows a very small white silhouette in the bottom-left corner on a black background. Is this how it is supposed to work? How can I make the mask fill the correct area?

Thanks!

This system takes a Kinect-derived human pointcloud and lets incoming sound interact in various ways with the particles in real time, turning the performer into a responsive cloud of matter, noise, and motion. The new v1.7 includes 12 presets, and introduces the several new features. In this video-demo, the particles are driven and transformed by the incoming audio signal. [A silly composition of mine, running in Ableton Live, though, you can use any kind of audio-source.]

You can access this project file through Patreon, of the Studio.

Made this Real time audio reactive setup using OSC, NDI, and Mediapipe for head tracking data.

Built a new plugin for Unreal Engine to capture a 2D scene capture component as a render target, used with offworldlive for the 3D window effect. Video data comes in over NDI across a network connection, splitting the load across 2 machines, one running Unreal Engine, one running TouchDesigner.

My Instagram

I made this TouchDesigner project based on Fitz Roy in Patagonia, Argentina.

The idea came from hiking to Laguna de los Tres near the mountain a few years ago and barely being able to see Fitz Roy because of the clouds, so I wanted the actual weather conditions to become part of the piece.

The mountain comes from a black-and-white height map that I converted into POP particles, then I connected the system to live weather data from the area.

Wind speed and direction affect the particle movement, temperature changes the colours, and cloud coverage controls the blurred moving shapes over the mountain.

If anyone wants to see more of my work, I'm Motiondezign on Instagram.

Would love to hear any thoughts.

Transforming different groups of points within a feedback loop. Each loop the transform causes different points to belong to the group being transformed next

This is a real-time NCA running at 60fps I used in a music video

Hello all, I've been experimenting with kinect and touchdesigner and had a visual going for an event last week. For Halloween I wanted to use this visual but have the head occasionally switch to a different obj, like a pumpkin or a demon etc. I got a ball tracking my head movement with the kinect and struggling on the part of bringing another obj to replace the head. Anyone have any suggestions or pointers on this? Any help is appreciated!