Black Friday Discounts + TouchDesigner Japan + New Tools

Hey everyone! It’s been a minute, and I wanted to share a few updates on what I’ve been up to, along with a Black Friday discount for the Community + Advanced Community tiers.

25% off the first month (code at the end of this post)

🇯🇵 TouchDesigner Japan + MUTEK

I just got back from the TouchDesigner Japan event, which was a part of MUTEK Japan’s 10 year anniversary. The trip was incredible, and I got to see so many artists in the TD community whose work has inspired me over the years. It was also really special meeting people who got into TouchDesigner through some of my tutorials. I also came away from the set of performances at MUTEK feeling very inspired.

I had the chance to give a talk and show a new GPU-based wavetable synth I’ve been building in TD. It works similarly to a wavetable synth, but you get to use visual effects to process and generate the shapes of the waves. There are some really amazing visual effects that you can apply, like reducing the pixel quality, which turn into audio effects like bitcrush. Very excited to share more on this soon. In the talk, I also showed an interactive piece I showcased at Video Città in Rome, as well as an A/V performance I did recently with Dan Gorelick. Hopefully I'll have video of the talk soon to share!

🧪 New Classifier Toolkit (with @dotimulate)

Lyell (@dotsimulate) and I just hit meetup number 12, hosting a full year of monthly TouchDesigner events as DATLAB! We also hosted an intermediate/advanced workshop at the TouchDesigner Japan event, where we previewed two new components we’ll be releasing soon. They let you take any CHOP source, MediaPipe pose/hands/face, EEG Muse sensors, or whatever sensor you plug into TD, and create a custom gesture recognizer in seconds. You can train it to recognize hand gestures, simple sign language, a quick YMCA pose set, or even specific brain-signal patterns, and it includes a built-in visualizer so you can see exactly what the system is reading. We’re doing a bit more tuning before releasing it more widely, but really excited to share it soon!

📦 MediaPipe Updates

I recently pushed a new MediaPipe update after everything I learned while working on the YOLO plugin:

Here’s what’s new:• No more need for the helper .tox files. The main MediaPipe.tox includes buttons that generate and auto-wire the helpers. Shout out to @polyhop for the idea!!• Fixes for the latest 2025 builds of TouchDesigner.• Support for webcam resolutions higher than 720p. This helps a lot on Windows, where you can only access the webcam once. MediaPipe now outputs the full webcam resolution.• I’m also looking into adding a TOP input soon.

🎥 Upcoming Tutorials

A few new tutorials are on the way:• A full walkthrough on YOLO Multi-Pose tracking, VisDrone aerial tracking, object tracking, and face tracking + adding custom models inside the YOLO plugin• An Advanced Audio reactivity tutorial that covers some low-latency techniques I’ve been refining

Thanks again for all the support! It really means a lot and lets me keep making these tools and tutorials for the community.

Black Friday Discount Code:

Blankensmithing2525% off the first month of the Plugin and Project File tier (active now through Monday)