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TouchDesigner Fundamentals

This course focuses on learning how to navigate the TouchDesigner environment, essential single family operations, and the basic ingredients for interactivity and realtime rendering.

Navigating the Environment
TOPs, CHOPs, SOPs, COMPs
Scripting & Python
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Education showcase Highlights

THE BEAUTY OF NODES

Investigating TouchDesigner with Soyun Park and her Students at the Design Art Technology Department at ArtEZ University →

USC STUDENTS DRIVE INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION PSITHAURA WITH BREATH AND COOPERATION

Psithaura (sith-ora) is an interactive installation directed by Evan Tedlock for his graduate exhibition at The University of Southern California (USC) →

SQUARE ROOT OF SIN: STUDENT EXHIBITION AT MARS CENTER

Moscow-based artists and new media producers Yan Kalnberzin and Evgeny Afonin (as Curiosity Media Lab) have been conducting TouchDesigner workshops in Moscow for a number of years now →

DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT DESIGN AT NABA WITH TOUCHDESIGNER

Andrew Quinn and teaching assistant graduate student Nima Gazestani have produced impressive live audio-reactive visuals to accompany classical music performances →

THOUGHTFORMS: VISUALIZE AND 3D PRINT YOUR THOUGHTS

What would be the consequences of our most intimate feelings and memories becoming accessible by technology? →

OHIO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' FIRST AND MOST EXCELLENT TOUCHDESIGNER PROJECTS

Check out the imaginative projects from 5 students who encountered TouchDesigner for the first time under the tutelage of Owen Lowery at Ohio University →

THEATRE IN THE TIME OF ISOLATION: BUILDING A REMOTE PRODUCTION DESK WITH TOUCHDESIGNER

In the spring of 2020 Associate Professor of Practice Sven Ortel organized an introductory TouchDesigner workshop for the summer at The University of Texas at Austin →

A NIGHT AT THE GETTY: WHAT I SEE IS WHAT YOU GET

In 2019, Woodbury’s Applied Computer Science - Media Arts program was invited by the Getty Museum to design an installation and exhibition for their College Night event →

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