awesome-touchdesigner
A curated list of high-quality resources for TouchDesigner, including official sites, tutorials, community projects, plugins, events, and more.
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1. Introduction & Official Resources
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2. Learning Resources
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Playlists & Courses
- Official Tutorials Playlist
- Summit Berlin 2018
- Workshop Norway 2016
- TouchDesigner Beginner Course
- The 100 Series: TouchDesigner Fundamentals
- A Deep Dive into the Core Knowledge of TouchDesigner
- Learning Touchdesigner
- The NODE Institute
- Gray Area TD Intensive - week TouchDesigner course culminating in a public exhibition.
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Tutorials & Video Playlists
- TouchDesigner Tutorials - Official Documentation
- Custom Operators
- Matthew Ragan's TouchDesigner Tutorials
- Interactive & Immersive HQ Tutorials
- Morphing between Objects
- Particle Clouds and Pseudo-Plexus
- Interactive Particles using particlesGpu
- Generate Shapes from an Image
- Pointclouds and Chromatic Aberration
- Particle Flow and Energy Absorption
- Custom Interactive 3D Particle System
- Sketchy Toon Shader
- Trace and Blob Tracking Effect
- Audio-Reactive Psychedelic Visuals
- Particle Attractors
- Make Anything Audio Reactive
- How to Dithering
- What is Generative Art: TouchDesigner’s Role in Art, Algorithms, and Creative Systems Explained
- Video to ParticlesGPU
- Simon Alexander Adams's Tutorials
- Working with Midi
- 3D Laser scanning dissipation
- Mouse Attracted Particles
- Learn TouchDesigner in 1 Hour (TouchDesigner for Beginners)
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YouTube Channels
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3. Projects, Tools, & Community Assets
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Assets & Marketplaces
- All TD - shared assets.
- ChopChopChop
- Palette - contributed TouchDesigner components and tools.
- The Tox Market
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Plugins & Tools
- TDAbleton - visual performance.
- Syphon - time video output between applications.
- Rust Plugins
- Pixel Maps (Artio)
- SOP To SVG Converter
- Constraint Simulation Tool
- TD Script - Blender Add-on for TouchDesigner - Integrate Blender with TouchDesigner
- MediaPipe - GPU Accelerated MediaPipe
- GeoPix - GeoPix is a free and open source real-time lighting control and previz software.
- TouchDiffusion - Real-time Stable Diffusion interactive generation with StreamDiffusion
- RayTK - Raymarching shader toolkit
- Simple Mixer - A Video mixer build in TouchDesigner.
- touchFluid - Fluids in TouchDesigner and GLSL
- touchfluids - Newtonian fluids in TouchDesigner
- TDComfyUI - TouchDesigner interface for ComfyUI
- TouchEngine-UE - The TouchEngine-UE plugin allows UE developers to load TouchDesigner components within UE while relying on the TouchEngine API.
- Style Transfer - TensorFlow implementation of Neural Style Transfer in TouchDesigner
- TDDiffusionAPI - TouchDesigner interface for AUTOMATIC1111
- FunctionStore Tools - TouchDesigner workflow tools and UX improvements and more
- Luminosity - Front-end for TouchDesigner aimed at providing operators with an efficient interface to perform, control, and distribute realtime media while retaining the open-ended programmability of TouchDesigner.
- TD Completes Me - A Simple Auto Completion Engine for Touch Designer
- ShaderBuilder - On the fly shader editing tool for TouchDesigner
- PostEffects - PostEffects for TouchDesigner
- Shader Park - Render Shader Park sculptures in TouchDesigner
- Image and Video Abstraction - Real-time Flow-based Image and Video Abstraction in TouchDesigner.
- ISF TouchDesigner - TouchDesigner component for working with ISF shader generators and filters
- ShaderToyTouchdesigner - Convert Shader Toy code for Touchdesigner
- TouchDesigner Shared Components
- TDComponents - A whimsical collection of everyday TouchDesigner components
- tektshared - Shared TouchDesigner components
- TD Voronoi - JFA Voronoi Video Filter in TouchDesigner
- TDDepthAnything - TouchDesigner implementation for Depth Anything and TensorRT monocular depth estimation.
- StreamDiffusionTD - time AI image generation using StreamDiffusion pipeline with SDXL and TensorRT support.
- Terrain Tools - engine-style environment creation with terrain shaders, volumetric fog, and boids system.
- TouchPy - performance Python toolset with Vulkan/CUDA GPU-to-GPU zero-copy data transfers for ML pipelines.
- TDYolo
- TDNeuron
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4. Inspiration & Creative Techniques
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Audio-Visual Integration
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Generative Art
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VJing
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5. Community & Social Engagement
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Forums & Groups
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Social Media & Showcases
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6. Blogs, Articles & Media
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Social Media & Showcases
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7. Events, Meetups & Newsletters
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Events & Meetups
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8. Artists & Studios
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Featured Artists
- Pauric Freeman
- ghostsmakemusic
- gip.hy
- Anastasia Lapotko
- bonnie2.0.0
- dith_idsgn
- Jason Beyers
- Cullen Hassel
- zpacetree
- fractaledvisions
- cerspense
- Android Jones
- actualizevisuals
- Weidi Zang
- Pieter Sistrom
- Simon AA
- Okamirufu
- Torin Blankensmith
- Glazov AV
- Luchen Xi - Alexxi
- NONOTAK
- TUNDRA
- Pauric Freeman
- ghostsmakemusic
- gip.hy
- Anastasia Lapotko
- bonnie2.0.0
- dith_idsgn
- Cullen Hassel
- zpacetree
- fractaledvisions
- cerspense
- actualizevisuals
- Weidi Zang
- Pieter Sistrom
- Glazov AV
- Luchen Xi - Alexxi
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9. Other VJing Software
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Featured Artists
- vvvv - A visual live-programming environment that takes you from rapid prototyping to final production.
- VJAMM - A piano for sound and vision, audio visual performance software.
- Zwobotmax.com - Play videos and create visuals right inside Ableton Live.
- MilkDrop3 - MilkDrop 3.0, supports any audio source, double-preset (.milk2), loading presets based on beat detection and much more...
- VDMX6 - The ultimate real-time video playground for macOS just got a whole lot more ultimate.
- Resolume - Resolume is the industry-leading software for VJ’s around the world.
- HeavyM - VJ software for projection mapping.
- Modul8 - The pioneering macOS VJ application.
- ArkaOS GrandVJ - VJ software for live video performance.
- Synesthesia - The All-in-One Music Visual Solution.
- Millumin - Complete solution to create Audiovisual Shows.
- Quantum VJ HD - Simple glitch-style audio visualizer (video generator).
- Noisedeck - An approachable, powerful video synth and a must-have for any creator's toolkit.
- aNa - A live coding system for visuals.
- GoVJ - Allows you to run your live visual mix, straight from your iPhone or iPad.
- Magic - Fully-customizable and highly responsive visuals for live and recorded audio & MIDI.
- Notch - time 3D motion graphics and VFX for live events and broadcast.
- ArkaOS GrandVJ - VJ software for live video performance.
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Cheat Sheets & Guides
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Playlists & Courses
- Common Operations Cheat Sheet
- Python Cheat Sheet for TouchDesigner Developers
- Python Cheat Sheet Part 2 (Intermediate)
- Python in TouchDesigner | Extensions
- Understanding Extensions in TouchDesigner
- TouchDesigner Keyboard Shortcuts
- SOP Cheat Sheet
- MIDI Device Beginner Guide
- VJing tools and resources list
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Community Projects & Repositories
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VJing
- Awesome TouchDesigner (GitHub Search) - curated repositories and lists.
- TouchDesigner Playground - A collection of TouchDesigner sketches.
- TouchDesigner Research Repository
- Generative Design Projects
- TouchDesigner Experiments
- TouchDesigner Projects Samples
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Newsletter & Media
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Events & Meetups
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Studios
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Featured Artists
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Programming Languages
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7. Events, Meetups & Newsletters
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