Class 01 – Introduction (2019)

Welcome to the Multimedia Authoring class.

Topics

• Course expectation
• CVA409 facilities
• Teacher’s introduction
• Hardware and software
• Multimedia & its development
• Interactive art
• Digital compositing

Workshop

• TouchDesigner
• Project folder
• Mouse and keyboard usage
• Windows and interface
• Edit vs perform modes
• Image resolution (1280 x 720)
• Types of license in TouchDesigner
• Digital colour (RGB vs HSV)

• 2D image
• Image sources (graphics, images, videos, webcam live stream)

Operators

• COMP (component)
• TOP (texture operator – 2D)
• CHOP (channel operator – numbers)
• SOP (surface operator – 3D)
• MAT (material)
• DAT (data)
• Custom

Exercises

• Simple image processing effects
• Compositing digital images

Resources

• Music video 1 (ABBA)
• Music video 2 (ABBA)
• All video files (zipped)

References

TouchDesigner website (derivative.ca)

First things to know about TouchDesigner

TouchDesigner keyboard shortcuts

• Jason Bruges Studio
• United Visual Artists
• Quayola
• AntiVJ
• teamLab
• rhizomatiks

Historical references

Puppet Motel – Laurie Anderson

Antirom CDROM

BlindRom – Gerald Van Der Kaap

Flying Letters – John Maeda

 

Source reference at https://github.com/chungbwc/vart2466