Welcome to the course

(gentle upbeat music) - [Instructor] Hello and welcome to the Generative Art with Touch Designer Course. I'm a host and instructor, Rik Lomas. Throughout this course, we'll be building up chapter by chapter to get you to a point where you'll be able to build your own professional level looking generative art from scratch. But what is generative art? So, firstly, generative art is not artificial intelligence.

It's nothing to do with AI. We have full control over exactly what we are doing here. We are basically making a system where we control what is going on whilst also giving the computer a little bit of control too, which means that every single time we run these little programs, we'll get a completely different outcome every single time. So even if you start with exactly the same system, the computer will add some randomness in here or some noise in here to get a completely different outcome.

Our art is a system but we don't have full control over the system. So an example of one of these systems is in project number one, which is called hallo prima. And what we're gonna be working on here is basically taking a texture such as a image, like a photo of me, and essentially distorting it to make it look very, very different. Every single time we run this system we're gonna get a different outcome, whenever we change a parameter in this system as well.

It's also gonna give us vastly different outcomes as well. And once we're done with this, we can save it to a video or an image. So let's dive in. It's time to make some art.