FMX 492 TouchDesigner (Independent Study): TouchDesigner: Hello Banana!

TouchDesigner:

Hello Banana!

I made this video with TouchDesigner by following the tutorials from the TouchDesigner Website. The tutorial videos total about 40 minutes and they move along really fast! I had to pause and go back a few times to get things right. Overall, I feel like I have a much better understanding of how the 6 types of components work together. While the tutorial doesn't specifically explain how to export a video, it's really intuitive. After animating the banana with an LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator) driving a math component, I applied some shading and rendered the video.

TouchDesigner is a visual programing language made up of 6 Families of Operators that are combined into Components. These components can be saved for later and combined into other projects. Here's a breakdown of the Operator Families:

OPERATOR FAMILIES (6 of them):

· TOPS: Texture Operators – Images

· CHOPS: Channel Operators – Motion, Control Signals, and Audio

· SOPS: Surface Operators – Polygons, 3D lines and other Surfaces

· MATS: Material Operators – Textures & Shading for 3D objects

· COMP: Components (3 categories)

· DATS: Data Operators – Manipulate Text Strings (free-form text & tables).

(Darker Colored Operators are GENERATORS)

(Lighter Colored Operators are FILTERS)

Here's a couple screen shots of my TouchDesigner Project while I was working on the moving banana: