From the course: Learning TouchDesigner

Welcome - TouchDesigner Tutorial

From the course: Learning TouchDesigner

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- [Scott] TouchDesigner is a node-based procedural media application that we use to build real-time graphic systems. In this Learn TouchDesigner course we're going to start at the beginning and take a look at the interface, and just learn how to navigate around the software. Then we're going to move on to looking at the different categories of nodes to get up to speed with the different context we have in TouchDesigner, and start to get a hint of its functionality. The first project we're going to build is a 2D animation where we import an image file and then build our first procedural network to animate that image file. Then we'll move onto building full 3D rendered scenes in real time with imported geometry, and shaders, and cameras, and lights. Then we're going to move onto building a user interface so we can start adding interactive control to our real time scene. And then we're going to take the interactivity even a little bit further by building an interface that we can put on an iPad that we can control that scene with remotely. And then wrapping this all up we're going to take this scene that we've built and we're going to bring that into a VR template that we're providing that's going to allow you to view your real time rendered 3D scene in TouchDesigner in VR using an HTC Vive. All right, so this is a really, really fantastic application that allows you to build really cool systems in a really playful, procedural way, so let's get it going.

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