Holiday Touch Designer Projects
Over the Christmas period I felt it was important for me to keep up the momentum with Touch Designer. I am constantly aware that if I want to go down the more generative art route I need to be much more programming literate. Normally when I sit down to an online tutorial I set my camera recording, so that I can produce a time-lapse. I like to produce a time-lapse because it gives a visual snapshot of the passage of time. This is something that is hidden from the viewer when observing final pieces. The tutorials are vastly time consuming so I think that it is interesting to have this time represented in some way.
I have numerous time-lapse footage of me working away at the Touch Designer tutorials. Therefore, I think now may be a good time to think of more creative ways of expressing this passage of time. However, for this blog I have included my last tutorial time-lapse as I worked on the video below it.
The Touch Designer Time-lapse
Results From The Touch Designer Time-lapse
Single Images Generated from The Video Above
Building in Mouse Interactivity
The following video was compiled using a Touch Designer tutorial as a base. It was a long and difficult piece to program because it has mouse interactivity built in. As the mouse trails across the screen it causes the pixels to react. The image that heads up this blog is a composite of digitally manipulated images from these two videos.
The Theme of Ai
I couldn’t leave this section without producing some visuals related to Ai. Below is the final video from a set of tutorials that I was following. I use these as a basis to create the programs I need. Then I edit them to produce the visuals that I want to make. I tend to think about Ai in terms of networks and tentacles so I used one of my Ai generated network images for this piece of digital art. For all the videos I produce, the music is an important component. I always try to choose appropriate music specifically matched to each video and relevant to what I’m trying to convey.
