YPO PARTY – MELS – Modular VJ set using unreal

• 3D
• large scale
• real time engine
• virtual production

Here is a workflow I started to build for some Christmas and organisation party at MELS virtual production studio. Few parties were organised at the virtual production stage and the mandate for one was to create a pacing « visual show » arround the idea of « creative euphoria ».
By being on of the only artist working on the project, I had to imagine a worfklow and way of creating the content that will permit me to deliver on time. I had the idea to create some sort of a « general virtual scenography, the idea of a giant abstract tree, that will take over the full led screen at mels, and represent the « icon » of the night : but this tree will be textured by creative and colorfull texture, tilable, that I generated inside midjourney.

This workflow permitted to create a large range of esthetic since changing the texture changed the all look of things. I liked this idea also because it permit to create some form that is present for the all night, but always renew itself by changing textures, speed, colors, and also sometime starting to move

For the technical VJ setup, we got :

• Midjourney prompting to create tilable texture in different style, colors and shapes
• resolume avenue to play the texture in a playlist (semi automatic or sometimes specifically chose a texture or another). sending this texture through NDI
• Unreal engine scene, powered by disguise (media server) and ingesting in real time the media NDI outputed by resolume, and mapping it to the material of the unreal shapes
• Touch designer, to ingest the sound live, and outputing live some float value audioreactive, that we then were able to put in any type of input to unreal engine (through osc)