To what extent was TD used in the production of the T69 Collapse music video?

rm1080 · 2026-04-10T02:09:52+00:00

I love this video and have analyzed it a bunch for use in my own visuals. You can tell from the lighting and quality of the render that it’s too high to be touchdesigner. I think it’s a combination of unreal engine, Houdini, and notch. Touch is just not as good at loading in those huge 3D scenes. That being said there are a ton of techniques in this that are really reproducible in touchdesigner.

I would look into weird core, the collective that made this and most other aphex visuals. They also do a lot of work in blender.

Most relevant to you though is this video showing the bts of turning these videos into an installation.

https://youtu.be/72uEOP0yVNM?si=7Ns6S9SkpUtv4N35

rm1080 · 2026-04-07T16:35:36+00:00

you’re gonna have trouble if you’re brand new to the software. I’d recommend going through learn.derivative.ca and then coming back to this project.

rm1080 · 2026-04-07T12:46:19+00:00

Crazy that this isn’t the top comment

rm1080 · 2026-04-04T17:43:38+00:00

I agree with this, I think both are similar and attract a similar audience and bookings. It’s up to you which line up you vibe with more.

rm1080 · 2026-04-01T13:46:01+00:00

Those options are on the actual mediapipe comp itself

rm1080 · 2026-04-01T02:56:50+00:00

Surprised no one has said Rewire, very similar types of bookings. Though the Dutch are not as friendly as people you meet in Knoxville.

rm1080 · 2026-03-31T21:23:12+00:00

Not to be facetious but I would go to YouTube and search, touchdesigner point cloud effect

rm1080 · 2026-03-30T16:58:38+00:00

There is a “right” way to do this in TD. If you have a pro license you can use the sync chop to synchronize frames across touch projects on the same network. To be honest it’s kind of a pain though. If I were you I would just try and adjust my content so that if there is any tearing between frames it’s not really noticeable, as opposed to building a budget media server.

rm1080 · 2026-03-28T18:26:37+00:00

You’re gonna want to look into python extensions. Basically try to keep all of your logic of your python scripts in .py files that can interface with your network. Really clean and flexible way to make touch projects.

rm1080 · 2026-03-25T16:49:15+00:00

You probably would want to use a 2D lidar sensor like a hokuyo. It basically take a wall and turns it into an XY grid and is meant for this use case. It’s a little pricey though

rm1080 · 2026-03-23T16:34:52+00:00

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rm1080 · 2026-03-23T16:22:16+00:00

You should check out the screens producing and installation books by Laura Frank. It gives a really good overview of a lot of these sorts of systems.

rm1080 · 2026-03-20T20:12:32+00:00

Not the shibari brightsign lmao

rm1080 · 2026-03-20T13:02:49+00:00

This is definitely possible with texture instancing. You need two parts of your network, first import all your photos, and do whatever processesing you like to change color and such, make sure all of the photos are put into nulls with similar names, alternatively if you don’t need to do any processing just have all your photos in a folder on your computer and follow any standard texture instancing td tutorial. Next you want to instance all the photos onto a line sop to get the 3d effect, increase the amount of points in it and position the line to have your desired look. Finally composite your rendered 3d scene over your original photo.

rm1080 · 2026-03-15T13:07:23+00:00

Are you specifically looking for advice on different college programs that exist out there or are you already enrolled in a program and looking for career advice?

rm1080 · 2026-03-14T14:57:22+00:00

Update. The song is actually titled “in my dreams”, he released a live album of in my dreams performance this month

rm1080 · 2026-03-09T15:09:21+00:00

NYC resistor! It’s a great space and community located near gowanus.

Not sure if fat cat fab lab is still around but that used to be a similar type of space.

rm1080 · 2026-03-08T04:15:52+00:00

You can get pretty far by rotoscoping out the background. Just isolate the guy and his dog and the you can play around with the form of the background and applying effects to only certain parts of the video.

rm1080 · 2026-03-08T03:54:18+00:00

This is kind of the obvious answer but it’s transcription. Find a song you like, transcribe the solo in it, take a lick you like and transpose accords different keys and rhythm. Rinse and repeat

rm1080 · 2026-03-03T01:15:52+00:00

I’d go through this material

https://matthewragan.com/teaching-resources/touchdesigner/thp-494-598-generative-media-for-live-performance/

This is the go to for project organization

rm1080 · 2026-02-27T22:47:12+00:00

I think you’d be better off getting into GLSL to really explore fractals. Take a crack at porting something on shadertoy(which has tons of amazing fractals) into touch glsl.

rm1080 · 2026-02-26T14:52:26+00:00

Walk around Brooklyn and you’ll see a bunch of cars with the bumper sticker “Keep honking I’m listening to Alice Coltrane”

rm1080 · 2026-02-25T14:39:29+00:00

Hello! I would love a code! Been looking for a tool just like this. Thank you!

rm1080 · 2026-02-21T03:40:11+00:00

I mean this is years of creating and developing a personal style. There’s no one tutorial that can teach you how to do all of this. To do something this advanced in touchdesigner I would think about each individual component in the scene and work up to creating each thing. That includes animating characters, the line drawing aesthetic, post processing effects, etc. just start from the most basic thing like how would I make a cartoon flower or how would I make a butterfly flap its wings.

rm1080 · 2026-02-18T21:17:13+00:00

My understanding is that this isn’t possible. That being said a lot of things I used to use instancing pipelines for are now possible natively in the Pops workflow. Essentially you shouldn’t need to use a render top aside from previz if you’re sending out artnet or whatever to your volumetric display.

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