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Blob Tracker Plus v2.4 update - Zoom Effects

I'm doing more work than normal prepping for my next tutorial, but didn't want to leave ya'll empty handed. I've been wanting to add this zoom effect to my blob tracker tool and finally have taken ...

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Make Complex Video Loops in TouchDesigner

In this walkthrough I make a complex video loop using particles.

The trick is simple. I move through noise space on a perfect circle using sine and cosine. Start point equals end points, so...

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Smooth Point Cloud Sprinkles with UV Unwrapping - Project Files

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Smooth Point Cloud Sprinkles with UV Unwrapping - TouchDesigner Tutorial

In this tutorial, I show how I get evenly distributed points across geometry surfaces.

The trick: combining world position texturing with UV unwrapping. I also cover how to create satisfying ...

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Video Depth Anything Effects - Project Files

Watch the Tutorial:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/131626044

Give any video a 3D effect with TouchDesigner...

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Video Depth Anything Effects - TouchDesigner Tutorial

Give any video a 3D effect with TouchDesigner and Video Depth Anything. In this tutorial, I show you how to get depth data from your video content and turn it into impressive point clouds and scan ...

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Video: Updates in Blob Tracker Plus v2.3

Made a video showing the new features in Blob Tracker Plus v2.3

Really excited about these new Additions to the Blob Tracker Plus tool. Focusing on making it easier to both just drop in a vid...

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Blob Tracker Plus update v2.3

New shapes, inverted fill, text alignment, custom text, and tracers!

Really excited about these new Additions to the Blob Tracker Plus tool. Focusing on making it easier to both just drop in ...

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Severance-Inspired ASCII Text Effect

This tutorial explains how to make a basic ASCII text effect and then adds movement and interactivity with noise and optical flow feedback. Some techniques covered in this video include texture ins...

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Blob Tracker Plus Tutorial

I’ve created a new tool exclusively for my Patreon supporters, bringing all those cool Blob Tracking effects to every version of TouchDesigner.

Features:
• Unlimited Blobs: No re...

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Blob Tracker Plus 2.2 Update

Ok. I just recorded a tutorial for this that I'm going to work on editing and getting out soon, but I thought I'd give ya'll an early look at this updated blob tracker.

Changes:

Blob Tracker Plus 2.1

Thanks for your feedback!

Changes:

  • Fixed Bug where certain parameters would error when not an odd number.

  • Parameter to choose blob vs motion tracking

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Blob Tracker Plus v2

I’m releasing the Blob Tracker Tool v2 a little early for my Patrons to get your feedback before a wider release. This tool is designed to enhance blob...

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Text Particle Transitions

Add this effect to your lyric video or use it to fancy up your captions on your next social post.

This method isn’t limited to text through. You could replace the text SOPs with all sorts...

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Create Time Machine Warp Effects

You can make any video look like it is dancing to your audio track with this fun technique of combining beat detection and the Time Machine TOP. As a bonus, I added a simple motion-driven bloom/fla...

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Blob Tracking and Tracers Part 2

I’m expanding on my first video of blob tracking and tracing. This time, it includes some new things, like how to zoom inside the blob tracking rectangles, splicing out a subsection of blobs for ...

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Interactive Installation Particles

This tutorial combines optical flow feedback with particle systems. This technique is great for making interactive installations with cameras or dynamic rendered video content. This effect is done ...

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Kinect Point Cloud Particles

In this TouchDesigner tutorial I’ll show you how to take the particle cloud input from a Kinect V2, filter out the points you don’t want, and add color and movement effects. These techniques ca...

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Geo Text Particles

In this tutorial you’ll learn how you can move text around as if it were a particle, but still maintaining all the font metrics, kerning, etc that you want from text rendering. The Geo Text comp ...

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Audio Reactive Voxel Ripples

In this tutorial, we combine a few different techniques for some generative visual goodness—audio reactivity, optical flow feedback effects, and instancing with tops. 

To be com...

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Force Field Particle Effect

This effect was a happy accident that came out of my experiementing with making a stipple effect using instanced force fields in TouchDesigner. I think there's a lot more that can be done with this...

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Flocking Effect in TouchDesigner

I’ve tried doing this in TouchDesigner for years and have finally figured it out. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a particle effect that combines all three forces a flocking algori...

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Audio Reactive Kaleidoscope Visuals with TouchDesigner

Dive into this TouchDesigner tutorial creating generative audio-reactive kaleidoscope visuals. Perfect for all skill levels, we'll break down complex concepts into simple steps.

By th...

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GLSL Particle Simulations

Whether you’re a programmer or not, GLSL can initially seem intimidating. However, in this video, I aim to make it less daunting. I show how you can create a visually stunning particle system wit...

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Slope Displacement in TouchDesigner

In this quick tutorial I show how to warp your videos and animations by combining the Slope TOP and Displacement TOP.

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Blob Tracker Effect Tool

Get this popular blob-tracking effect as a drag-on operator. It is much more efficient than the Blob Tracker TOP and has unlimited blobs.

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Chromatic Aberration

In this Touchdesigner tutorial, I explain how I make the chromatic aberration effect in my vintage lens tool.

Download this project file and get access to Dean’s Vintage Lens tool in...

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Vintage Lens Effect

With creative options, including chromatic aberration, lens blur, film grain, RGB delay, and vignette, this tool lets you infuse any input with a dose of old-school cool.

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Motion Tracer

Get those great plexus style lines generated from motion in a video.

Just drag and drop the tox into your TouchDesigner project, connect a video to the input and you're off.

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Interactive Particles in 3D with TouchDesigner

Making 3D particle systems is pretty easy, and making interactive particle systems in 2D is pretty straightforward, but how can we make 3d particle systems that are still interactive?

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