Cyberpunk 2077-Inspired Point Cloud Effects in TouchDesigner
Get access to 200+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz Sorkhabi and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial Download video project files/resources: https://interactiveimmersive.ac-page.com/cyberpunk2077-Inspired-Point-Cloud-Effects If you’re a TouchDesigner Beginner, check out our TouchDesigner Tutorial Series! We teach you all the basics of how to use TouchDesigner, including mouse controls, hotkeys, parameters, the operator families, and more: https://interactiveimmersive.io/touchdesigner-tutorial/ Taking inspiration from sci-fi and cyberpunk classics of the past, Cyberpunk 2077 presents a visual aesthetic equally gritty, vintage, and futuristic. The retro-futurist aesthetic is taken even further during certain scenes throughout the game where the main character interacts with a firewall called the Darkwall — the environment transforms into a pixellated, glitchy computer rendering of dot matrix buildings and characters. For those who are familiar with them already, it looks like a world made of point clouds! In this tutorial, Jack DiLaura walks you through creating point cloud effects inspired by the aesthetics of Cyberpunk 2077. You’ll start the effect from scratch, generating your own point clouds in a roughly Darkwall-like grid, and then transition to working with the point cloud data as textures, exploring the kind of possibilities this approach enables. Finally, you’ll finish up the effect with a variety of post effects that aim to recreate some of the game’s subtle aesthetic touches, like chromatic aberration and bloom. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Inspiration, Intro and Set Up 00:05:21 - Converting from SOP to CHOP and TOP format 00:11:08 - Animating the Noise 00:17:05 - Generating Movement with Noise Tops 00:22:43 - Applying Noise to Point Cloud Positions 00:28:14 - Applying Color to Points 00:34:07 - Corrections and adjustments 00:38:54 - Applying Chromatic Aberration and Blur Effects 00:45:39 - Adding Luma Blur and Texture to the Image 00:51:20 - More TouchDesigner and Immersive Content
Get access to 200+ hours of TouchDesigner video training, a private Facebook group where Elburz Sorkhabi and Matthew Ragan answer all your questions, and twice-monthly group coaching/mastermind calls here: http://iihq.tv/Trial Download video project files/resources: https://interactiveimmersive.ac-page.com/cyberpunk2077-Inspired-Point-Cloud-Effects If you’re a TouchDesigner Beginner, check out our TouchDesigner Tutorial Series! We teach you all the basics of how to use TouchDesigner, including mouse controls, hotkeys, parameters, the operator families, and more: https://interactiveimmersive.io/touchdesigner-tutorial/ Taking inspiration from sci-fi and cyberpunk classics of the past, Cyberpunk 2077 presents a visual aesthetic equally gritty, vintage, and futuristic. The retro-futurist aesthetic is taken even further during certain scenes throughout the game where the main character interacts with a firewall called the Darkwall — the environment transforms into a pixellated, glitchy computer rendering of dot matrix buildings and characters. For those who are familiar with them already, it looks like a world made of point clouds! In this tutorial, Jack DiLaura walks you through creating point cloud effects inspired by the aesthetics of Cyberpunk 2077. You’ll start the effect from scratch, generating your own point clouds in a roughly Darkwall-like grid, and then transition to working with the point cloud data as textures, exploring the kind of possibilities this approach enables. Finally, you’ll finish up the effect with a variety of post effects that aim to recreate some of the game’s subtle aesthetic touches, like chromatic aberration and bloom. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Inspiration, Intro and Set Up 00:05:21 - Converting from SOP to CHOP and TOP format 00:11:08 - Animating the Noise 00:17:05 - Generating Movement with Noise Tops 00:22:43 - Applying Noise to Point Cloud Positions 00:28:14 - Applying Color to Points 00:34:07 - Corrections and adjustments 00:38:54 - Applying Chromatic Aberration and Blur Effects 00:45:39 - Adding Luma Blur and Texture to the Image 00:51:20 - More TouchDesigner and Immersive Content