TouchDesigner

Partner studio: Puny Human

Concept

A node-based visual development platform for real-time interactive multimedia — generative art, audiovisual performance, projection mapping, interactive installations and live event production — with a procedural GPU compositing pipeline underneath.

Requirement

The partner's product is real-time rendering infrastructure. The skills it needs are precisely the ones a game studio has: GPU and shader work, procedural systems, performance under a hard frame budget, and hardware and show-control I/O. What it does not have is a game studio's volume of engineers who work in that space every day.

Approach

Engineering capacity was provided against the partner's real-time rendering and tooling workstreams, applying the studio's render optimization and systems programming practice to a non-game real-time platform.

Delivery scope

• Real-time rendering engineering
• GPU and shader work
• Systems and tools programming
• Performance optimization
• Pipeline and integration support

Results

• Engaged 2021
• 4–10 person-months delivered, across 1–2 engineers
• Applied the studio's render optimization practice outside games, into the live events and experiential market
• Part of a deliberate 2020–2021 diversification away from publisher-funded contracts

Engine: Real-time graphics platform.