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 the time to do it. It makes for some really fun surveillance style tracking videos.
The UI is very simple. I've added a "Zoom Fill" toggle and a "Zoom Amount". You'll want to play with the zoom ...
2025-09-25 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 the loop is perfect.
The project file for this tutorial is available to all my paid members.
2025-08-20 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostHere are the project files for paid members on my Smooth Point Cloud Sprinkles with UV Unwrapping tutorial.
2025-07-17 12:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 transitions between different point clouds using the Matte TOP.
Genoma’s Tutorial: https://www.you...
Watch the Tutorial:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/131626044
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 lines using TouchDesigner. I show you multiple m...
2025-06-17 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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 lines using TouchDesigner. I show you multiple methods, including a comparison to how it can be done with POPs.
Project Files: 2025-06-17 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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 video and play with parameters to get your desired output.
Tracker Shapes: Square, circle, triangle, and crosshair
Fill Options including an invert fill
Text a...
2025-06-11 15:48:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 a video and play with parameters to get your desired output.
Tracker Shapes: Square, circle, triangle, and crosshair
Fill Options including an invert fill
T...
2025-06-11 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 instancing, replicators, and UV math.
As a freelancer, I’m always looking for new collaborations. If you’re interested in working together, let’s chat!
2025-03-11 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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 restrictions on the number of blobs you can track.
• Custom Thresholding Tools: Fine-tune the blob detection to suit your needs.
• Easy Resolution Selection: Quickly adjust the resolution fo...
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:
Better thresholding including an invert function
More granular control on min/max blob size
Adding Morphological Operations to erode and dilate blobs after contours have...
2025-02-27 04:17:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks for your feedback!
Changes:
Fixed Bug where certain parameters would error when not an odd number.
Parameter to choose blob vs motion tracking
Thanks for trying it out! Let me know if there are any other features you'd love to see in this tool!
2025-01-14 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostI’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 tracking in TouchDesigner with added features and flexibility, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.
Key Features:
• Advanced Blob Tracking 2024-12-26 21:14:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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 of shapes, geometry, etc to transition between.
As a freelancer, I'm always excited to collaborate on new projects. If you're interested in working together, let's chat!
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/flash effect.
As a freelancer, I'm always excited to collaborate on new projects. If you're interested in working together, let's chat! 2024-10-31 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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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 tracing, and effects.
You can download the video I used from Pexels: https://www.pexels....
2024-09-25 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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 primarily in TOPs with feedback loops for both the position and velocity.
You can download the masked dancer video I used from Pexels: 2024-09-05 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 can be combined with many of the other particle effects we’ve covered in these tutorials
2024-08-28 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 is our key tool in this and we’ll learn how to use some of its special functions to make generative and interactive effects with text.
Other topics covered in this tutorial:
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 completely honest I wasn't super stoked with where it landed at the end of the video so I did a bunch more tweaking that you can see in the attached project file.
2024-08-06 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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 technique so I thought I'd share!
Other things you might learn in this tutorial:
Particle Instancing
Force Field Textures
Smooth Nor...
2024-07-31 18:52:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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 algorithm requires: attract, repel, and follow.
Other things you might learn in this tutorial:
Optical flow feedback for liquid effects
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 the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a one-of-a-kind, attention-grabbing visual setup that reacts to audio in real-time. More importantly, you’ll acquire practical insights that can be directly app...
2024-07-10 21:04:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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 with just a few lines of code, demonstrating that it’s not as complex as it may seem.
Other topics covered in this video:
Flow Fields
Feedback Loops
In this quick tutorial I show how to warp your videos and animations by combining the Slope TOP and Displacement TOP.
2024-07-03 18:36:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2024-07-03 17:14:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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 the TouchDesigner Tools Collection
Topics covered in this video:
Slope Displacement
Reorder TOP
Normalized Value Viewer
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.
2024-07-01 19:55:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
Customize the line width, color, and add a "squiggle" to it too if you want.
2024-06-28 21:56:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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?
In this tutorial, I explore a simple method for 3d particle interaction using render picking on a single piece of geometry that I then use to interact with a large particle system.
Topi...
2024-06-27 21:42:05 +0000 UTC View Post