TouchDesigner Intermediate Practices with artist DRMBT
Join artist DRMBT for a beginner friendly workshop getting into intermediate techniques for building in TouchDesigner!
2026 marks DRMBT's 10th year working with TouchDesigner, and to celebrate, they're releasing a collection of the HIVE custom components they've built over the past decade of creating immersive and interactive installations.
From the artist:
As I reflect on 10 years Touch-iversary, combing through and cleaning up the tools that have enabled my career as an artist and technician working in this field, I'm reminded of some of the strategies that helped me unlock this dense software and move beyond hard coded one-offs to building with modular systems design thinking.
In this workshop, I'll share my best practices for turning your toxes into reusable modularized tools, network templates, some hard won tips and tricks, and a suite of ready-to-use and battle tested components to make working in TouchDesigner feel like a personal operating system for installation design.
While this presentation will have plenty to offer TD beginners, a lot of the concepts and practices explored will assume basic knowledge of TouchDesigner, and are geared towards intermediate and power users that are looking to build sustainable longevity into their designs
Topics covered:
style guide, schema and naming conventions
building reusable drop-in parameterized tox components
cook optimizing portable components
git practices for palette versioning and portability
an overview of the my shared operating system templates for TouchDesiner
Attendees will be gifted early access to a selection of templates, tools and global components that will be released via Patreon later this summer
Vincent Naples is a digital artist, VJ and creative technoligist working with real-time and generative media techniques, the tools and tropes of digital animation, and the exploration of emergent AI models to create immersive environments, abstract and narrative animations, and installation works for gallery, stage, and event settings.
An active member of the TouchDesigner community, his work has been exhibited in Japan, Germany, Georgia, Portugal, Mars and across North America, as well as providing lectures on creative tooling and systems for digital multimedia manipulation.