I've watched a lot of videos on Touch Designer, and this is by far the best one in terms of educating people as to how to use these operators creatively -- very professional style course, the assignments are an excellent touch.

Learning TD from this tutorial was an absolute pleasure. What a cohesive, pedagogical masterpiece! Loved the ambient music in the background, so good for focus.

Best tutorial on here. Thanks a lot

it feels like bmo is giving me a tutorial, it feels so warm. thank you a lot

I've been struggling with tons of partial tutorials and had obscure ideas about each component - this one makes everything clear and organised in my brain. Thank you for such a wonderful tutorial x

Awesome tutorial! You’re voice gives me calmness vibes which really helps concentrate!! Thanks for the free info you’re spreading ! 💪👏

Guys, I really appreciate this, I’m really happy. Thanks for your time and your passion. Hope one day I return it back! Abrazos.

I think this is the first tutorial i've watched (on anything) that I haven't put on 1.5x speed. Amazingly thorough, and really enjoyed the challenge of the Assignments.. Although I rarely created them the same way as the proposed solution, I'd learn something whilst recreating them, and then backtracking through the steps of the actual solution was really informative. Thank you Acrylicode - I will be signing up via Patreon ✌🏻

amazing introduction to Touch Designer. assignments arent easy but even if you don't find the perfect answer, it forces you to dive into the subject. it's greatly done, and its a real help. thank you. following you !

I've seen lot of TD tutorials and this one is the most clear and well created. Congrats and thank you. Excellent job.

Doing this together with my girlfriend, this is great. The assignments are fun! Thanks.

You're such an incredible instructor! You achieve such a great balance of being challenging and encouraging. I'm also learning a lot by doing the assignments on my own first and then replicating what you've done and see if I see what new solutions can I come up with by combining both. Thank you for making this lesson public!

This tutorial is amazing! The explanations are simple and clear, and it is so easy to follow along! I'm so happy I discovered this!

Best beginner for TouchDesigner I've watched, hands down. This one did it for me. I loved the assignments, it made it very engaging. Thank you so much.

The best beginner's tutorial so far. I really appreciate it.

I'm working through your tutoial, I've now finished assignment five. I imagine I will do the rest of the tutorial over some days. It's a really excellent tutorial, thank you so much. The assigments are also so great for solidifying and understanding, even when you get them wrong, or maybe especially so. I'm taking my time, and doing some extra variations on the assignemtns and playing with things as I go, to help me understand. It's also really fun. Thank you so very much. 🙏🙌💛

Brilliant! I've watched all of the full courses Bileam and Elburz and wasn't sure if I should go for a third but I'm so glad I did as this is amazingly good. Congrats on packing all that into 2 hours. Stunningly good. Thanks 🙂

awesome!

This was honestly the best tutorial to describe all Operator Classes and Technical Process for creating and manipulating 2/3D Visuals in Touch Designer. I've seen a lot of other videos but for me sincerely it was the best approach. There is too much information that u are trying to put in only 2 hours so i took it slowly :P, i just personally enjoyed the clarity of your explenation while executing each step. Doing the assignements gave me a bit more confidence with the program, while making me feel more confortable and relaxed when thinking about the future of my creative thought. I'm at the point of creating my first audio/visual performance using TDAbleton, my Live Set is ready and i already established the connection between the two programs. This was exactly what i was looking for. Being able to be creative with what i am receiving from my Ableton Live Set is such a gamechanger after your condensed tutorial. Thank you so much and keep it up with your amazing work 😊

Perfect tutorial, couldn't have asked for more! -Bailey

Incredible, absolute S-tier tutorial

I've been given a week to learn Touch Designer, and I feel this has really given me a head start. Thanks a lot! Great tutorials!

Amazing tutorial. One of the best I've seen yet.

So far the BEST TD beginner tutorial Video!! thanks a lot!

AMAZING Tutorial! Indeed I've seen a lot other tutorials, but this one at max efficiency!!!! Thank you!!

thank you for this helpful tutorial!

great. very helpful. Cant wait to begin my journey in touch designer

Amazing tutorial so far, thanks a lot for uploading this!

She sounds a bit like Björk after 20 espressos, but certainly one of the most straightforward and understandable beginner tutorials on Touchdesigner on the net. 👍❤️

thank you so much! enjoyed every bit of this tutorial and am gonna recommend it to my students. So clear!

Really enjoyed learning with you, I managed to recreate every assignment pretty fast, with every assignment I allowed myself to be creative with it but always made sure I had the elements from each of them. Took me a few days to go through all of them.

Huge thanks for this amazing tutorial. Def. the best of it's kind that I've found. All the information was presented so clearly and logically, I feel like a have a great command of the fundamentals, and the overall TD approach is making way more sense. Would love to see an advanced tutorial at some point, if you feel so inclined :)

Wow! Super didactic, it clears up many doubts and gaps that I have not found in other tutorials.!!!!! Congrats!!! and thx!!!

This is so so useful. TY so much.

This is an Awesome Video!

It might sound weird, but I love doing the assignments and really spending time finetuning the settings just to realize that you have usually a much simpler solution! Great learning experiences, thank you!! Touch Designer is amazing

I just have to comfirm the comment of megalithic witch blood - by far the best tutorial for starting with touchdesigner.... please keep it doing, and maybe some more tutorials how to achieve curl noise effect like in houdini, for example in style of refik anadol... that would be beyond amazing....

Thanks, it was great!❤

I've had some experiences with TD before but thought I need to refresh my knowledge. Just finished the Tutorial, did all the assignments. very fun to watch and easy to follow. Great tutorial Acrylicode. Love your content. keep creating 😍

Wow, what an awesome tutorial. Thank you! Really brought me up to speed on TD this afternoon. While I learned so much there are a couple of things it would be great to see in another tutorial or perhaps if these things Im about to mention have already been covered by you or someone else (on KZfaq or elsewhere) please let me know what the link is. So the first thing is: it would be great to go a little deeper with python to under stand what built in events there are in TD so event handlers can be built for them and how to implement. For example is there an event that can be accessed for each frame in the animation or is there the equivalent of a game loop like in the Unity Update method? 2nd thing: is there a way to take the visual from the Out and transform it into an equirectangular projection that can be sent via Spout so it could be used in another app like Unity as a texture that could be applied to a sphere?

Excellent! Much appreciated!

Thanks for your help!

Really cool

finally finished thanks a lot your video helped a lot

AMAZING!! THANK U

amazing! thank you, so much

best beginner tutorial out there!

Thank you so much for this 🙏

You are a beast. thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! You give the best tutorials for TD!!!!!!!

thanks so much! big help trying to navigate TD

Fantastic video. Thanks so much for this.

I've been wanting to start exploring this great software for a long time. I'm currently in the middle of the timeline of the video, but already I want to say thank you to the author. Great video, thanks for helping me learn :) Good luck with your youtube channel

I found this very difficult for an absolute beginner. I had to slow the playback to 0.5 and pause frequently because everything happens so fast. I have been working with graphic design software for 20 years but failed the first two assignments as found them to be too hard - specifically the order of connecting the operators. I was able to understand what each of them does but figuring out what goes where is hard. So the other assignments I didn't even bother with. I appreciate you did this tutorial and put it here for free as I now know I need to find a live class or a more in-depth online course to be able to understand TD properly. So if anyone else is struggling with this - you are not alone and you are definitely not stupid. Thank you for this free resource, it really helped me.

thank you so much!

Thank you.

GENIA!!!💘

Extremly good tutorial 🏆 Learned a lot

Thanks ❤

great video.

Muito bom

1:37:05 Instancing

on 1:18:35 , is there a difference in computational speed if we don't delete de "return" at the end of the function? I'm just wondering why you specifically deleted it.Thanks:) Great walktrough btw

Thanks so much for your helpful tutorial. I just completed assignment 2 and it all works, except that a big red X shows in the comp1 and transformer2 operator nodes, even though they are working. Would you be able to tell me why?

Brilliant! A little too fast at first, had to pause many times and get my bearings here. Thank you!

Can you please link the tutorial that you mentioned when you were going through Instancing? Very curious what you were talking about. Thank you so much!!!!

How would I make a cube and put a different image on each face of it

in the sop operator tutorial, did you shift the phase of one of the lfo's off camera, so one box went up and the other down? If i don't shift the phase, both boxes move in the same direction? or maybe you pressed the on off button on the lfo which i just discovered?

this is one of the best tutorials i have watched, i've been following along with it for a few weeks and it's been so helpful, the assignments really solidified my learning! thank you

Ah, I see! You must be inside of the 'Network Editor" in order for the 'Tab' key to open 'OP Create Dialog'

Hi, at the beginning, how were you able to multiply the second circle and ramp if the alpha data on the circle was 0? 14:58

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Hmmm....somehow my gradient is not smooth but a distinct horizonal line splitting the image directly in half, along with that has 3 small pixelated rectangles on the line and a few random specks of noise also.

*Remember to hold the shift key while clicking and dragging in order to multi-select!

I need help… my timeline doesn’t display the timeline settings, time code, beats or fps. I have no idea why they’re not showing or how to get them back???

For the first assignment, how did you align each circle to fit properly? I tried and it is either far too left or far too right.

why the period of the beat chop is set to 20?

Hello Sir, I am learning Touch designer, i want to interact Human Body (kinect) to trigger premade (Maya) breaking animation fbx. Can You Pleasee guide..

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Could you say what the music is in the background?

I dont understand the topic with assignment....;/ i did the first assginment but i havent the window to click on it ^^

is there a free-software version that does something similar?

Do you need to know lots about programming in any code to use this software>?

watched it from start till the end, awesome for someone like me, who is just starting. Most of it I did not understood LOL, but those bits and little quirks are giving me foundation to build on and further my knowledge. Best part is Audio in Touch Designer :)

Ahh! I zoomed out & can't figure out how to zoom back in hahaa!

OP Create Dialog: double-clicking on the background of a network pressing the Tab key clicking the + icon at the top of a Network Editor Pane beside the path use MMB and/or RMB on OP inputs/outputs RMB -> Add Operator on a Wire RMB -> Add Operator on an empty part of a network ___________________________________________________ TOP [Texture] OPERATORS -P key = Parameters window -Each Node is dealing with a matrix of Pixels -Can change Resolution [in Parameters > Common] to 1 by 1 to reduce number of pixels *TOPs are made of pixels = Pixels has RGBa values >create > TOP circle - TOP ramp - TOP composite -circle & ramp = operators which generate data & 'comp' only works when given an input -connect circle & ramp > to comp = 3D sphere > P.key > open parameter window = can change radius of the sphere & other attributes -Ramp > P key [parameters] > click on ramp slider to add points of color [attribute] shifts. Ramp will interpolate between the color points / shifts in attribute set. -Delete points > click & drag upward -Type > change the style of ramping -Extend [Right/Left] determine what happens at the edges of ramp -endless possibilities of ramp variation ____________________________________________________ Composite TOP -multi input Texture Operator performs an operation for each input _____________________________________________________________ Lookup TOP -replaces color values in the TOP image connected to its 1st input w/ values derived from its 2nd input _____________________________________________________________ Transform Operator -applies 2D transformations to our TOP image _____________________________________________________________ Noise TOPerator -data generating operator. Generates a variety of noise patterns including perlin, simplex, sparse, alligator & random >goes together well w/ > Displace Operator Displace TOPerator -transformative generator ______________________________________________________________ CHOP Operators -channel based & channels themselves are sample based Math CHOP -allows for mathematical operations between inputs if given multiple inputs or can help w/ remapping the range of our input -connect MATH to new operator NULL node > -bottom right corner or node [viewer active] > up arrow > to node [noise] > right arrow > to period in parameter window > drop down select CHOP reference of Period