Torin Blankensmith

Hey Everyone! I'm very excited to share the talk I did for the TouchDesigner Japan event back in November. I was recovering from entirely losing my voice the night before, so please excuse how I sound! In this talk, I go behind the scenes of several audiovisual projects and performances I was workin

Hey! I just added Monocular Depth Estimation to the Yolo26 TouchDesigner plugin, so you can now estimate real-world distance in meters from a standard camera feed. Example Project + Visualization Tools I also have the example Patreon project here (project file at the bottom of the linked post) that

Hey Everyone, I'm trying something new! I'll be going live tomorrow Aug 5th at 1PM ET on YouTube to film the tutorial of the new Yolo26 plugin I created for TouchDesigner, which you can find here https://www.patreon.com/blankensmithing/posts/yolo26-plugin-165125985. Here's a link to the livestream a

Hey everyone! It’s been a minute, and I wanted to share a few updates on what I’ve been up to, along with a Black Friday discount for the Community + Advanced Community tiers. 25% off the first month (code at the end of this post) 🇯🇵 TouchDesigner Japan + MUTEK I just got back from the TouchDesign

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 set up high-qu

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 the .

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 through

Hey All! I'm co-hosting a NYC new media arts festival called DATFEST with Lyell Hintz (@dotsimulate), happening April 18 at Chemistry Creative in East Williamsburg! The festival centers around TouchDesigner, with hands-on workshops, talks, interactive installations, and live AV performances across t

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

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 Labs

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 can a

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 Droste effec

Link to the original video tutorial walking through the component New 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 gestur

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-api The 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 component

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-park Completed project: https://glitch.com/~audio-reactive-shader-three-js-shader-park Getting started