The Power of POPs :
Unlocking the New Operator Family
Recording of June 2025
1 lesson at 3 hours in English Language.
Recordings will be available for at least one year after purchase.
This course, led by audiovisual artist and creative coder Darien Brito provides a comprehensive introduction to POPs, TouchDesigner’s powerful new operator family designed for advanced and efficient data manipulation. After a long time in Alpha, the POP operator family has been released in Experimental build 2025.30060 and can be used by everyone now. There is little doubt that POPs will dramatically change the way we work with TouchDesigner and now is the time to level up and embrace the new possibilities. You can get a first impression here.
The course explores the architecture, workflows, and creative applications of POPs. Learn how to integrate POPs into your workflows, design complex projects, and leverage their flexibility for high-performance solutions.
What You’ll Learn:
Understand the meaning of POPs
Unlock advanced, yet efficient data manipulation
Explore the architecture of POP operators
Lay the foundation and understand the inner workings and the logic behind POPs
Learn how to integrate POP operators in your workflow
POPs will drastically impact how we can achieve certain effects
Discover creative applications for the new operators
Optimize your setup to efficiently generate high-quality content.
Leverage the flexibility that comes with POPs
Design complex projects while keeping your framerate high
Requirements
This module is made for participants, who have a basic understanding of TouchDesigner. If you just getting started, please visit our Beginners Course first.
- A recent PC or MAC Computer (discrete GPU recommended) with stable internet connection
- The latest Experimental Build of TouchDesigner installed
- 3-Button Mouse recommended
