This tutorial will help you leverage Blenders physics engine to create complex 3D animations quickly. It will also walk-through programmatic solutions to deal with texturing and playing back those animations. The tutorial uses 3D assets from my previous tutorial on camera mapping which you can find here: http://www.design.ianshelanskey.com/technology/3d-content-part-1-camera-mapping/
Here is a useful workflow for creating complex/timeline based animations in Blender 2.7 and importing them into TouchDesigner. This tutorial will take you through UV mapping/editing to easily line up 2D graphics to the 3D counterpart, then how to generate realtime textures for the 3D geometries. Here is a link to the Blender file used […]
Hey all. If you’re like me and don’t have enough money for a LIDAR scanner but need to make precision 3D models for projection mapping or content creation, here’s a relatively quick and cost effective method. All you need is a decent camera and a 3D modeling program like Blender. For this tutorial I am […]
I came across the need to animate CHOPs based on a cued sequence. I have found that the animation chop is a little difficult to work with quickly in a theatre tech week scenario, so I created a way of cuing parameters with python dictionaries and storage. A dictionary in Python is a data structure that […]
Part of my work on ASU’s production of The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other involved making some Previs software. I wanted to be able to work with the scenic designer and the director in order to devise a specific portion of the show called the ‘Panel Dance’ and what the media might look like […]
EDIT: This is now way easier to do from within TouchDesigner using the Threaded Web Comp here: http://derivative.ca/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=9164 . Tutorial to come soon. OH BOY! This one is going to be exciting! Somewhere in my meanderings of Touchdesigner, I decided it was a good idea to try this. Assuming my mantra of “How hard can it be?”, […]
Recently I have been using Touchdesigner to make theatre. Touch is great because it lets you quickly edit content in real time and move along in the tech process, however I was getting really annoyed at searching my network to find components when I had to edit a “Cue”. I was longingly looking over at the […]
ASU Emerge is a festival centered around questions about the future. I was part of a design team that helped create an environment where we could actively engage those questions. This piece of the design was made to give information to participants as they entered the space. It lays out the agenda for the day […]
I made these simple visuals for a club scene for a short film.
This project explores our perception of words in space. Using Windows SAPI SR engine, Touchdesigner, and a bit of python coding, I wrote this handy set of programs that listens, interprets (or in many cases misinterprets) and displays words that are said with a velocity derived from the volume of which they are spoken. The […]
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