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10 – Texture Instancing / January 13, 2026

Lesson Overview Today's module is about introducing the technique called Texture Instancing. As usual in the first part of the lesson I'm giving an overview about the first exercise. By

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11 – Introduction to GLSL / January 20, 2026

Lesson Overview Learning Outcomes List of Nodes Get Support To get support outside of the live session, please join our discord server with this invite:https://discord.gg/F7cXRMYUK7

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12 – DATs and Python scripts / January 27, 2026

Lesson Overview Today's lesson will focus on the possibility to merge together multiple files, created in the past weeks, and create a more complex file that includes multiple visuals. The

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3 – Feedback Loops / Recording of November 11

https://vimeo.com/1135887384?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Lesson Overview Today we are going to create an interactive visual using the Mouse input coordinates using Panel CHOP and connecting the movement of a Circle TOP. After this

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4 – Enter 3D Space / Recording of November 18

https://vimeo.com/1138272289?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Lesson Overview During this session we setup a simple and basic 3D environment using the Geometry, Camera and Light COMP. Focusing our attention on the possibility of using the

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5 – Interactive Particle Systems / Recording of November 25

https://vimeo.com/1140582155?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Lesson Overview Today we are introducing how to setup a particle system using Particle SOP. Sound reactive in the first project example and interactive in the second exercise of

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9 – Introduction to POPs / January 6, 2026

Lesson Overview Today we dive into the brand-new POP (Point Operators) family—GPU-accelerated operators that blend the familiarity of SOP and CHOP workflows with the speed of texture-based computation. POPs make

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6 – From Data to Form – Simple Instancing / Recording of December 2

https://vimeo.com/1142610691?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Lesson Overview From data to form it means that everything in Touchdesigner is related to numbers, and you just need to convert them from a Family of OPs (operators)

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7 – Audio Reactive Instancing / December 9, 2025

Lesson Overview Today's lesson is about mixing Instancing and what you learned in the previous modules, such as Feedback loop or converting CHOPs into TOPs. Different techniques to produce a

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2 – Interactive Chops and Tops / Recording of November 4

https://vimeo.com/1133638255?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Lesson Overview Discovering how easy it is to Collapse Selected nodes in a Base COMP and create multiple visuals starting from the previous files (or networks) will be one

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