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I've released my course "Vera Molnar Reconstructed" in occasion of the death of the artist
Dear Creative Coders,I'm sending you a second post today. Unfortunately, Vera Molnar passed away on December 7 at the age of 99. She was a pioneer of computer art and I have often used her story to explain what I mean by creative coding.At the beginning of this year, when she was still alive, I had already prepared a new online course on how to recreate Vera Molnar's artworks. In doing so, I adopted a method proposed by Stig Møller Hansen as a teaching method in his brilliant PHD thesis. I have now spontaneously published the course an...
A reflecction on Processing Community Day Copenhagen 2023
Dear Creative Coders, 👋I hope you are doing good! A few weeks ago I was in Copenhagen to give a talk at Processing Community Day 2023 in Copenhagen and it was such a blast! I met so many of interesting people and had dozens of insightful discussions. 💙 Now I took some time to write an article about the event, just to recall the whole thing and keep memories fresh.https://timrodenbroeker.de/pcdcph2023/Would be great to hear your thoughts on the piece, feel free to post a comment here on Patreon!I wish you a great weekend,warm greetings fro...
Curriculum Update December 2023
Hey Creative Coders, 🙌I hope you are all well! Today I would like to give you an insight into my work on the curriculum. I am currently developing two courses in parallel, both related to randomness.Random Compositions You may have seen my post from last week in which I dealt with an assignment that I call "Random Compositions". I recently challenged my Master's students at Elisava in Barcelona with this task and the results were absolutely amazing and extremely versatile. In my post from last week, I wanted to lay the foundation...
Random Compositions 🎲
Hey Creative Coders, 👋One of the most exciting and maybe even unsettling discoveries in the learning process of Creative Coding in Graphic Design is randomness. It allows you to let the computer make its own, unpredictable decisions. Here two worlds collide, because from a traditional design perspective we are used to have almost full control over the things we create. Randomness can make you feel a bit unsettled and uncertain, but at the same time it reveals the full potencial of coded design: to generate any number of variations within a d...
What Creative Coding can teach you beyond crafting visuals
Hey there! ☀️I am back from Processing Community Day Copenhagen, it was simply an amazing event, really. I have met so many interesting people, had so many great conversations. When I landed in Barcelona on sunday I just realized how much input i took home from there. It was simply a beautiful experience. Now I am looking forward for the coming weekend when I will conduct the workshop with Martin I announced earlier this week. Yep, it’s quite a lot, I definitively look forward for the calmer times after this last important event this year...
Special Announcement!
Dear Creative Coders,as you probably know me and Martin Lorenz, the author of the book "Flexible Visual Systems", are good friends. In the last years we were talking a lot about how we could bring our teachings about Creative Coding and Flexible System Design together. We had tons of ideas and now one of them is finally becoming real. We are going to give a workshop on the 18./19.11.2023 at PAU in Barcelona. I know, it is a very short notice, but maybe you are around and are free on the coming weekend.Get more infos on our webiste: codi...
Exclusive preview: A Conversation with Andreas Gysin 🔥
Hi Creative Coders, 🙌I hope you are doing good! This week I have a special conversation to share with you: Andreas Gysin is one of the big names in the creative coding scene, known for his beautiful ascii artworks, his physical installations and his enormous success during the NFT boom a few years ago. I was intrigued to learn about his origins and what drives him today. You can find out all this and more in the video.What are your thoughts? Do you have any questions that are bothering you? Feel free to share what's on your mind.I send y...
Curriculum Update November 2023
Hi Creative Coders! 🙌I hope you are doing well! Today I'm getting back to you with a curriculum update: All lessons in Generative Sculptures have been updated with code snippets for p5.js. There is now a course teaser video for The Third DimensionIf you find any bugs and errors, please let me know!---Teaching at Elisava in BarcelonaOther than that, there's a lot going on here. I am currently teaching at the renowned ELISAVA university in Barcelona. In my course, master students from different design disciplines learn Creative Coding....
This Thursday: Join my "ask me anything" session at 5pm CET on Discord
Hey Creative Coders! 🙌This Thursday from 5pm CET I'll be online in the #meetups channel on Discord on for an "Ask me anything" session. Feel free to drop by, with or without questions, and even with ideas and suggestions. Looking forward to it!Greetings from Barcelona, ☀️Tim
Mastering the Learning Process 💪: show your work!
Hey Creative Coders, ☀️I hope you are doing well! It's time for another episode of my monthly "Mastering the Learning Process" series, in which I will share some ideas about the power of showing your work and to "learn in public". I always wanted to try to do something with audio only since I am listening to audiobooks and podcasts myself all day. So here we go, this is my first podcast-episode :-Dshow your work!When I made the decision to learn Creative Coding in 2015, I registered a blog on tumblr.com to document my le...
Creative Coding Inspiration: A conversation wit Tomáš Kostrzeva
This week I would like to share with you a new Conversation that I am very proud of. Tomáš Kostrzeva is from Bratislava, Slovakia. He is a graphic designer and has been an active Patreon member of mine for a very long time. Besides very exciting experiments with color and gradients that he shares on Instagram, he most recently used his creative coding skills in the visual identity for TEDx Bratislava. In the interview he reveals what drives him, how his learning process went and in which direction he is striving. As you can imagine, it makes ...
Curriculum Update: ✨ New course: “Generative Sculptures”
Dear Creative Coders, ☀️I hope you are doing good!Finally the time has come and I can share a new course with you. In "Generative Sculptures" you will learn step by step how to transform any image file into a three-dimensional structure. The system I explain in detail here I've already used in projects for clients like IBM and Netflix. It's visually very interesting because it gives concrete and recognizable image subjects an exciting digital characteristic.I am very pleased with this course! Although I had enormous difficul...
New course out next week / Programming Posters 2023 / Mockup Generator ✨
Hey Creative Coders! ✌️I hope you a re doing good!Today I send you sunny greetings from beautiful Barcelona and also a great forecast, because next week I will post a new course! Stay tuned!In two two weeks my seminar "Programming Posters" for master students of Elisava will start. For this I have prepared a lot and thought a long time about which subject could fit well. In the end, I decided to reinterpret the project of my very first teaching assignment of 2018: "Programming Posters". The video is meant to give my students...
Invitation: A casual meetup on Discord, this Friday at 5 pm (CET) ☀️
Dear Creative Coders, ✌️hope you had a good start into the week!I just wanted to announce that there will be an open meetup on Discord this week on Friday at 5pm (CET). Feel free to join. I would be happy to see you there!Many greetings from Barcelona,Tim
Three tools that can help you to master your learning process
Do you struggle keeping track in the learning process in Creative Coding? You can relax, because it's basically the same for almost everyone. Learning programming is hard and challenges you on many levels. But there are some very useful tools that can help you overcome the obstacles. That's what this lecture is about.I would love to get some feedback from you: What are your personal experiences? Is there anything you would like to add? How do you like this new content format? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.Have fun!Tim...
Creative Coding Inspiration: A conversation with Lena Weber 🤖
Hello dear Creative Coders, ✌️I am infinitely grateful that through my work on my platform and curriculum, I get to meet so many great people who are just as passionate about Creative Coding as I am. One special person is Lena Weber, with whom I am in close contact. A few months ago I shared a conversation with her on my website, which was mainly about her master thesis. A few weeks ago, I spoke with her again via Instagram Live after she completed her Master's and is now looking at how to apply what she learned and wrote. The conversat...
✅ Curriculum Update - 9/2023
Hey Creative Coders! ✌️In this first Curriculum Update, I'll show you the changes I've made over the past few weeks. Here's the overview: I renamed the "Courses" menu item to "Curriculum". In the video, I explain the thoughts behind it. I added a new course, which is meant as a general introduction. There is already a lesson with a video in it. The rest is still marked as "Work in Progress". I renamed "Creative Coding Essentials" to "Essential Processing and p5.js" because the course is ba...
It's done: I moved to Spain! 🥳 / my new improved patreon communication schedule 🗓️
Hey Creative Coders, ✌️I hope you are all well! I'm reporting back from my vacation with some great news:It's official now: I'm living in Barcelona! Everything is set up now, I'm already sitting at my new workspace and writing this text in a beautiful coworking space, the Glashaus in the "Poblenou" district. I am absolutely happy with my decision and totally looking forward to the next months here.I've also had some time now to think about my work again. I realized that the communication with you here via Patreon...
A personal note ☀️
Hi folks, 👋🏼I want to update you this week with a personal message. Next week I am about to make my move to Barcelona. I will be landing at the airport in the Catalonian city on Tuesday at noon with my two suitcases plus hand luggage to start my new life there. And I can tell you that I am really looking forward to it. The last few weeks have felt like being stuck in an airport waiting for a flight that gets postponed over and over again. For trcc, interestingly enough, I've come up with a lot of great new ideas in this state. For exa...
trustTheProcess(4) - Data Stream
Hello folks,I hope you are doing good! ☀️Final countdown, 10 days left in Germany, next time, when I record the last episode of the first seasson of my livestream-series trustTheProcess(), I will already live in Barcelona. I am literally living out of a suitcase since weeks and I am very much looking forward to the next months. I also took another teaching assignment for the renowned design school Elisava in October and November. So yeah, I’m ready to get started in Spain!Okay, this week I share episode four of trustTheProcess() with you....
A conversation with Raphaël de Courville
Hi folks! ✌️I hope you are doing well! A few weeks ago I had the honor to meet Raphaël de Courville in person at the audivisual jam at MotionLab in Berlin. Many of you might be familiar with him, as he has built a great community for Creative Coding. On Sundays he can usually be found streaming on Twitch, he authored more than 100 Creative Coding newsletters, he founded the Creative Coding Stammtisch Berlin and now he works for the Processing Foundation as community lead. I immediately invited him for a conversation and here it is! Yay!Sho...
trustTheProcess(3) - ASCII Blobs
Hey folks! ✌️Today I share the edit of the third episode of my trustTheProcess() livestreams with you. In it I rebuilt my "ASCII Blobs" visual in p5.js. In between I struggled getting the system running, but that's the idea of this livestream format. In it I want to show you that in tricky situations you can always reach your goal with calmness, patience and creativity, even if something changes slightly in between. This became especially clear here, because I had originally planned to include anime.js, but changed my mind in th...
Coming soon: trustTheProcess(3) + a Conversation with Raphaël de Courville
Hello dear people,☀️i hope ypu are doing good!Wow, there's a lot happening behind the scenes again, you can look forward to a lot of cool new content.Actually I wanted to share the edited version of last week's livestream with you today, but unfortunately the editing didn't work out in time, so I'll make up for it next week.Next Thursday is already time for the next livestream (see the calendar). Do you have an idea for a topic? Then just post it here in the comments!At the moment I'm trying to help new members to better...
New recording: 📼 trustTheProcess() – Building a threedimensional timeline with Processing
Hi folks!Today I want to share with you the properly edited recording of the last livestream, in which I built a three-dimensional timeline with Processing. Olinga again did the editing, which is helping me a lot!I also created a related blogpost about it again.Many greets and enjoy your weekend!TimMore from trcc You can now decide with which layout you want to view the lessons. Just click on "toggle view" on the right side of the screen in the lesson view. Next week there will be an online meetup for patrons on Discord at 6pm CET (see ...
Next livestream tomorrow at 6pm CET
Hello dear people,✌️I hope you are all well! I just wanted to give you a quick announcement that I'm starting another livestream tomorrow. This time I'll be working with p5.js and taking a look at how the anime.js animation library can be integrated there.I'm really looking forward to it!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPwg5nDMQWzkAfb56_GvGpA/liveSee you tomorrow, 6pm CET.Tim ☀️PS: I have added more events to the Google Calendar. If you didn't subscribe yet, make sure you do it now, so you won't miss any events. ...
New Stream online / trcc Google Calendar / various updates
Hey folks, ☀️I send you my best regards from Barcelona! I am currently looking for an apartment and I may have found it today. Hope I get the apartment in Born, very close to the Arc de Triomphe. Keep your fingers crossed for me!New Stream online: Random Composition 📼In case you missed my livestream from two weeks ago, you can now find a clean edited version on the blog. There is now a new category called Streams where you will find all recorded streams in the future. This feature is exclusive for patrons. By the way, I have now also fou...
Livestream tomorrow! 🎥
Hello folks, ✌️I hope you are well! Today (Wednesday) I will spontaneously go to Berlin to meet some of you in real life. I'll stay until Sunday and then I'll fly to Barcelona to look for an apartment. Between mid August and early September I will then move completely to Spain. So exciting! Things might be a bit hoplish here on the Patreon channel until i have everything sorted.Thanks for your feedback! 🙏In the last few weeks I have collected a lot of feedback from you. On the one hand via the survey on Google Forms, but also thr...
Course dev update: Lost in Gradation 🤷♂️
Hey there, ✌️I hope you are well! Here the summer has fully arrived and enjoy the last weeks in Paderborn. Already at the beginning/mid of August I will leave for Barcelona and move my center of life to this beautiful city. The preparations are in full swing and I'm in the process of becoming a hardcore minimalist. It feels great to get rid of old stuff.A lot has happened this week:New work for the New York Times 🗽A second time I had the honor to develop a visual for the New York Times. It's an illustration for an essay by invest...
One more thing: Livestream next week!
Hello everyone!here is a short addition to the post from yesterday: next Thursday (June 15th) at 4:00pm (CET) I will start a livestream-series! In it I will solve a few exercises of the Bauhaus Coding Workshop to completely update the course. It just needs a new, more colorful touch. The live chat will be open, so we can do this together!I am looking forward to seeing you.Link: https://youtube.com/live/bfmQb_RyHmI?feature=share
Course preview: Gradation
Dear Patron,finally! 💪 I managed to finish the two most important lessons for my Gradation course. It took me no less than 2 months and I started from scratch several times. Now the base is ready and I'm very happy and excited to learn what you think of it: As always, I am totally happy about your comments!✌️I have also attached the code here. And here are the direct links to the lessons:https://timrodenbroeker.de/courses/gradation/step-1/https://timrodenbroeker.de/courses/gradation/step-2/Have a great weekend!Warm greetings,☀️Ti...
