Torin Blankensmith
Independent Creator & Educator Patreon YouTube
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTorin Blankensmith is a freelance creative technologist and real-time graphics artist based in New York with 12 years of experience building interactive installations, mixed-reality experiences, and open-source creative tools. He co-created Shader Park and the MediaPipe plugin for TouchDesigner, enabling real-time motion tracking and procedural shader work used by thousands of artists. As an educator and annual adjunct at Parsons, he teaches advanced creative coding and TouchDesigner, bridging technical depth with design-driven pedagogy. His work at Studio Elsewhere translated into 60+ permanent “Recharge Room” installations for hospitals, reflecting a rare blend of artistic practice and clinical impact. Torin publishes technical tutorials and plugins on YouTube and Patreon, producing all creative, filming, and editorial work himself and cultivating an international audience. He also contributes practical infrastructure like a resilient WebSocket server template, showing he spans both creative systems and reliable backend engineering.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Human Computer Interaction Engineering, Human Computer Interaction Engineering at University of Washington
Github Skills (10)
nodejs10
javascript10
websocket10
websockets-client10
websocket-client10
server10
client-websocket10
server-side10
error-handling9
json9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
torinmb/Socket-Server-Template
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Websocket Node Server Template
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Torin focused on developing and refining the back-end functionality of a WebSocket server. They implemented features to broadcast messages, added keep-alive functionality using JSON messages and `ping / pong` messages, and enhanced the server's resilience with error handling. The contributions involve modifying the server to improve reliability and maintain connection health.
websocketsnode-serverwebsocketnodejstemplate-server
shader-park/shader-park-examples
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
Example template projects for Shader Park.
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 1 month
reacttemplateboilerplatewebglthreejs
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