Dean Cheesman

Blob Tracker Plus v2.4 update - Zoom Effects

I'm doing more work than normal prepping for my next tutorial, but didn't want to leave ya'll empty handed. I've been wanting to add this zoom effect to my blob tracker tool and finally have taken the time to do it. It makes for some really fun surveillance style tracking videos.

The UI is ...

Make Complex Video Loops in TouchDesigner

In this walkthrough I make a complex video loop using particles.

The trick is simple. I move through noise space on a perfect circle using sine and cosine. Start point equals end points, so the loop is perfect.

The project file for this tutorial is available to all my paid members.<...

Smooth Point Cloud Sprinkles with UV Unwrapping - Project Files

Here are the project files for paid members on my Smooth Point Cloud Sprinkles with UV Unwrapp...

Smooth Point Cloud Sprinkles with UV Unwrapping - TouchDesigner Tutorial

In this tutorial, I show how I get evenly distributed points across geometry surfaces.

The trick: combining world position texturing with UV unwrapping. I also cover how to create satisfying transitions between different point clouds using the Matte TOP.

Genoma’s Tutorial: 2025-07-17 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Video Depth Anything Effects - Project Files

Watch the Tutorial:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/131626044

Give any video a 3D effect with TouchDesigner and Video Depth Anything. In this tutorial, I show you how to get depth data from your video conten...

Video Depth Anything Effects - TouchDesigner Tutorial

Give any video a 3D effect with TouchDesigner and Video Depth Anything. In this tutorial, I show you how to get depth data from your video content and turn it into impressive point clouds and scan lines using TouchDesigner. I show you multiple methods, including a comparison to how it can be done...

Video: Updates in Blob Tracker Plus v2.3

Made a video showing the new features in Blob Tracker Plus v2.3

Really excited about these new Additions to the Blob Tracker Plus tool. Focusing on making it easier to both just drop in a video and play with parameters to get your desired output.

• Tracker Shapes: Square, circle...

  2025-06-11 15:48:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Blob Tracker Plus update v2.3

New shapes, inverted fill, text alignment, custom text, and tracers!

Really excited about these new Additions to the Blob Tracker Plus tool. Focusing on making it easier to both just drop in a video and play with parameters to get your desired output.

• Tracker Shapes: Square, c...

  2025-06-11 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Severance-Inspired ASCII Text Effect

This tutorial explains how to make a basic ASCII text effect and then adds movement and interactivity with noise and optical flow feedback. Some techniques covered in this video include texture instancing, replicators, and UV math.

As a freelancer, I’m always looking for new collab...

Blob Tracker Plus Tutorial

I’ve created a new tool exclusively for my Patreon supporters, bringing all those cool Blob Tracking effects to every version of TouchDesigner.

Features:
• Unlimited Blobs: No restrictions on the number of blobs you can track.
• Custom Thresholding Tools: Fine-tune the bl...

Blob Tracker Plus 2.2 Update

Ok. I just recorded a tutorial for this that I'm going to work on editing and getting out soon, but I thought I'd give ya'll an early look at this updated blob tracker.

Changes:

• Better thresholding including an invert function

• More granular control on min/max bl...

  2025-02-27 04:17:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Blob Tracker Plus 2.1

Thanks for your feedback!

Changes:

• Fixed Bug where certain parameters would error when not an odd number.

• Parameter to choose blob vs motion tracking

Thanks for trying it out! Let me know if there are any other features you'd love to see in thi...

Blob Tracker Plus v2

I’m releasing the Blob Tracker Tool v2 a little early for my Patrons to get your feedback before a wider release. This tool is designed to enhance blob tracking in TouchDesigner with added features and flexibility, and I’d love to hear your thoughts...

Text Particle Transitions

Add this effect to your lyric video or use it to fancy up your captions on your next social post.

This method isn’t limited to text through. You could replace the text SOPs with all sorts of shapes, geometry, etc to transition between.

As a freelancer, I'm always excited to coll...

Create Time Machine Warp Effects

You can make any video look like it is dancing to your audio track with this fun technique of combining beat detection and the Time Machine TOP. As a bonus, I added a simple motion-driven bloom/flash effect.

As a freelancer, I'm always excited to collaborate on new projects. If you're inte...

Blob Tracking and Tracers Part 2

I’m expanding on my first video of blob tracking and tracing. This time, it includes some new things, like how to zoom inside the blob tracking rectangles, splicing out a subsection of blobs for tracing, and effects.

You can download the video I used from Pexels: 2024-09-25 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Interactive Installation Particles

This tutorial combines optical flow feedback with particle systems. This technique is great for making interactive installations with cameras or dynamic rendered video content. This effect is done primarily in TOPs with feedback loops for both the position and velocity.

You can download th...

Kinect Point Cloud Particles

In this TouchDesigner tutorial I’ll show you how to take the particle cloud input from a Kinect V2, filter out the points you don’t want, and add color and movement effects. These techniques can be combined with many of the other particle effects we’ve covered in these tutorials

Geo Text Particles

In this tutorial you’ll learn how you can move text around as if it were a particle, but still maintaining all the font metrics, kerning, etc that you want from text rendering. The Geo Text comp is our key tool in this and we’ll learn how to use some of its special functions to make generativ...

Audio Reactive Voxel Ripples

In this tutorial, we combine a few different techniques for some generative visual goodness—audio reactivity, optical flow feedback effects, and instancing with tops. 

To be completely honest I wasn't super stoked with where it landed at the end of the video so I did a bunch m...

Force Field Particle Effect

This effect was a happy accident that came out of my experiementing with making a stipple effect using instanced force fields in TouchDesigner. I think there's a lot more that can be done with this technique so I thought I'd share!

Other things you might learn in this tutorial:  <...