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Depth Anything TouchDesigner Tutorial
In this tutorial, we'll dive into Torin's new DepthAnything plugin for TouchDesigner—a drop-in .tox that turns any webcam or TOP into a real-time depth map (no extra installs or special hardware) for Mac + PC. We’ll explore instanced visuals with trails, experiment with occlusion, and se...
DepthAnything TouchDesigner Plugin: Huge Update! v03
You can find the updated component on the original Patreon post here DepthAnything turns any webcam feed and now any TOP into a live depth map, showing how far away things are in the scene, similar to the kind of depth data you'd get from a Kinect or Orbbec camera. No install needed, just drag t...
Yolo TouchDesigner Plugin: Multi-Pose, Object, VisDrone, & Face Tracking + More
This plugin brings Ultralytics YOLO into TouchDesigner with no install required. Just drag and drop the yolo.tox into your project.FeaturesObject Tracking – unique IDs that persist across framesMulti-Person Pose Tracking – body keypoints, joints, & persistent IDs across framesVisDrone – traine...
ChatGPT-5 TouchDesigner Plugin
Hey! I'm excited to launch an update to the ChatGPT-5 Plugin for TouchDesigner! If you want to combine it with other AI models like text-to-speech, speech-to-text, or animate a 3D character with the responses, check out this Patreon project as well.How to get started:1) Drag and drop the ChatGPT...
Flux Krea Plugin: AI Image Generation in TouchDesigner
Hey Everyone! I'm excited to launch a new Flux Krea Dev integration with TouchDesigner. It lets you easily generate photo realistic imageryHey Everyone!I'm excited to launch a new Flux Krea Dev integration with TouchDesigner. It lets you easily generate photo realistic imagery that doesn'...
Project File: Object Tracking in TouchDesigner with MediaPipe
In this beginner-friendly tutorial, we dive into object tracking with the MediaPipe plugin for TouchDesigner—no paid license required! You’ll learn how to connect a webcam or custom video input using NDI, visualize tracked objects with custom lines and bloom effects, and generate sound both thro...
DATFEST NYC TouchDesigner Festival
Hey All! I'm co-hosting a NYC new media arts festival called DATFESTwith Lyell Hintz (@dotsimulate), happening April 18at Chemistry Creativein East Williamsburg! The festival centers around TouchDesigner, with hands-on workshops, talks, interactive installations, and live AV performances ac...
Watercolor Hand Tracking Brush in TouchDesigner Tutorial
In this beginner tutorial, we'll dive into hand tracking with MediaPipe and building an interactive watercolor effect in TouchDesigner! You'll learn how to create a custom hand-tracked brush to paint dynamically on screen, with brush size control, gesture-based clearing, and even video textu...
Clamp Math TouchDesigner TOX: Smooth and Reliable Value Mapping
This simple Clamp_Math.tox component in TouchDesigner makes it easy to adjust and smooth out values from hand tracking, sensors, or other inputs. It keeps numbers within a set range, ensuring smooth and reliable interactions. You can customize the input and output ranges, limit extreme values, and a...
Generative Architecture and Hand Tracking in TouchDesigner with MediaPipe
In this tutorial, we'll create a Brutalist-inspired Generative Architecture piece using TouchDesigner. We’ll explore instancing, physically based rendering (PBR), hand tracking with MediaPipe for interaction.Let me know in the comments if you have any questions.📌 Resources & Links:- Hand Tr...
Hand Tracking Master Class in TouchDesigner with MediaPipe
I'm so excited to launch this three-part Master Class on Hand Tracking in TouchDesigner with MediaPipe 🎉. I’ve taken insights from my Genuaryartworks (a 30-day generative art challenge in January) and distilled them into a series of tutorials. This course will help you create your own inte...
ChatGPT Plugin for TouchDesigner Now Supports o1-Preview, o1-Mini, GPT-4o, & GPT-4o-mini with Vision / Image Upload
I'm very excited to launch this new plugin that supports OpenAI's new models which you can read more about here.Here's a linkto my previous tutorial that shows how to get an API key and set up your projectHere's another tutorialshowing how to combine the plugin with other AI models t...
Eleven Labs Speech-to-Text: Audio Quality Upgrade
The new TouchDesigner plugin features dramatically improved voice quality with a new Audio Format dropdown. Options include PCM 16000, 22050, 24000, and 44100. The default is now 24000, reducing audio artifacts—previously set to 16000. The highest quality, 44100, is available with a Pro Eleven Lab...
New Shader Park Plugin for TouchDesigner + T3D Support
I'm excited to launch the new Shader Park plugin for TouchDesigner! It allows you to easily take your raymarched shaders that run in the browser and bring them natively into TouchDesigner to introduce things like audio reactivity, hook them up to sensors, or render out high quality video. This c...
Easily Train Pose, Image, & Audio Detection AI in TouchDesigner (No Code): Teachable Machine Plugin
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Teachable Machine plugin for TouchDesigner. It lets you quickly train lightweight Pose Detection, Image Recognition, and Audio Classification models and embed them into TouchDesigner to run offline without an internet connection.Link to Teachable Mac...
ChatGPT Plugin for TouchDesigner supports GPT-4o + Vision
I'm very excited to launch this new plugin that supports OpenAI's latest GPT-4o model which you can read more about here. This new plugin update also includes the ability to have GPT process images, which you can easily turn on and off with each new message via the 'Upload Image With Mes...
Text-to-Speech ElevenLabs Plugin for TouchDesigner with Whisper, ChatGPT, and MediaPipe Integration
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the new ElevenLabs text-to-speech plugin for TouchDesigner. We'll also walk through a project creating a voice-activated 3D talking character by integrating Whisper for speech-to-text, ChatGPT for generating dialogue, ElevenLabs for text-to-speech, a...
Picture in Picture Hand Tracking Effect - TouchDesigner Tutorial
Happy New Year! Got some exciting things in the works for the new year that I'm looking forward to sharing with you all soon.I'm doing Genuary this month, a challenge to create a piece of generative art every day in January. The prompt for day 3 is to create something in the style of a Drost...
ChatGPT TouchDesigner Plugin Supports GPT4-Turbo + JSON Mode!
I'm very excited to announce the ChatGPT Plugin for TouchDesigner now supports OpenAI's new GPT-4-Turbo beat which includes a 128K context window and JSON mode, and improved accuracy on returning the right function parameters. You can learn more about the new features features OpenAI launche...
New TouchDesigner MediaPipe Plugin 0.3.1 Release 🎉
Link to the original video tutorial walking through the componentNew features Smooth Pose Tracking with MediaPipe update to 0.10.7. no more jittery poses Camera flip toggle on MediaPipe component flips the camera + output Face mesh example using the source video as texture Easily track pinch gesture...
Face, Hand, Pose Tracking & More with MediaPipe GPU Plugin for TouchDesigner
Hey! In this tutorial, we'll go over the new free open-sourced MediaPipe plugin for TouchDesigner that's GPU accelerated and works on Mac and PC with no instillation. The plugin supports face, hand, pose and object tracking with multi-person face detection, object detection, and image segmen...
Audio Reactive & Motion Controlled Visuals in TouchDesigner - Tutorial 2/3
Hey! In this tutorial, we'll go over how to create audio reactive visuals that are also motion controlled using a custom Body Tracking plugin that I developed for TouchDesigner.Link to the project file for the visuals is attached below. You can drag and drop the audio_reactive_visuals.tox into t...
New Body Tracking Plugin for TouchDesigner - No Kinect Needed | Tutorial 1/3
Hey! In this tutorial, we'll go over my new body-tracking plugin for TouchDesigner. It runs off the webcam and works on both Mac and PC. The components work without any setup, or installation needed. I also go over how to start using it in your TouchDesigner Projects.The Project has been tested ...
TouchDesigner Berlin Event Update + New Component Sneak Peak
Hey Everyone! Thank you so much for your support. I know it's been a long time since I've posted. I was traveling to the Open Source Arts Developer conference in Denver Colorado with Peter and I'm currently in Berlin for the TouchDesigner Event. It's been amazing to meet some really ...
TouchDesigner Plugin now supports GPT-4!🎉
The component from this tutorial now works with the new GPT-4 model. You need to get on OpenAI's waitlist to get access: https://openai.com/waitlist/gpt-4-apiThe component defaults to GPT-3.5-turbo, so it works out of the box. If you get off the waitlist you can change the model from the compone...
Custom ChatGPT-4-Turbo and Whisper(speech to text) Plugins for TouchDesigner
Hey! In this tutorial, we'll go over 2 new components I developed to run OpenAI's Whisper (speech-to-text) and ChatGPT within TouchDesigner. No need to install any dependencies.Link to Open AI: https://platform.openai.com/signupUpdate:Note the component now works with the new GPT4 & GPT-4-Tu...
Video to Video AI Style Transfer with Stable Diffusion and Keyframing in TouchDesigner - Tutorial
Hey! In this tutorial, we'll go over how how to do video to video style transfer with Stable Diffusion using a custom component in TouchDesigner. We'll cover how to keyframe in animations so you can drive your AI style generation with audio reactivity and swap out your model parameters at ex...
Create Audio Reactive Shaders With Three.js and Shader Park
Hey! In this tutorial will cover how to create an audio reactive shader using Three.js and Shader Park.Starter template: https://glitch.com/~starter-template-audio-reactive-shader-three-js-shader-parkCompleted project: https://glitch.com/~audio-reactive-shader-three-js-shader-parkGetting started wit...
Audio Reactive Animtions with Stable Diffusion and TouchDesigner
Hey! In this tutorial, we'll go over how to use Stable Diffusion with a custom component to generate audio-reactive animations in TouchDesigner.Project File attachedLink to The first Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRXTR...Link to the API: https://computerender.com/Prompt Engineering w...
Web GUI for TouchDesigner Component
Hey! In this tutorial, we'll go over how to use a new custom component that allows you to instantly create a web GUI for any TouchDesigner container and control TD in real time over the web. The website will also live-update when changes in TD are made.We'll also dive into behind the scenes ...




























