Heineken Silver2023
DJ Silver: A Virtual DJ the Crowd Steers Live
An hour-long live show where a virtual DJ travels through genre worlds, and the crowd votes in real time where she goes next.
The challenge
Build a one-hour live show for giant screens, fronted by a virtual DJ, in which the audience reshapes the experience in real time.
The idea
DJ Silver moves through a world per genre: reggaetón, electronic, pop, corridos tumbados and a pop-electronic finale. Between sections, every attendee votes with a button wristband (red vs. green) for the next direction.
Each vote swaps not only the song but the entire visual world, so every branch leads to a different show.
My part
I directed and ran motion capture sessions for the DJ's performance, and built realtime and pre-baked VFX, cloth simulations for a character and particle effects.
I programmed the platform that carries the DJ through each world, and programmed and animated the cameras. For the Cancún edition, I built an interactive 3D tool to paint fur in real time across a room.
From mocap to show
- 01
Motion capture
Mocap sessions for the DJ's performance.
- 02
Retarget
The capture is retargeted onto DJ Silver.
- 03
Realtime world
Platform and cameras programmed in Unreal Engine.
- 04
Live vote
The crowd's wristbands choose the show's next branch.
- of continuous realtime show
- 1 h
- worlds, one per music genre
- 5
- options in every vote: red or green
- 2
Outcome
Performed live on the Silver Studio stage at Heineken Silver Live Out 2023 in Monterrey, billed in the official lineup alongside The Blaze and The Midnight. Press described the "takeover" in which guests controlled the music with button wristbands.
The challenge
Build a one-hour live show for giant screens, fronted by a virtual DJ, in which the audience reshapes the experience in real time.
The idea
DJ Silver moves through a world per genre: reggaetón, electronic, pop, corridos tumbados and a pop-electronic finale. Between sections, every attendee votes with a button wristband (red vs. green) for the next direction.
Each vote swaps not only the song but the entire visual world, so every branch leads to a different show.
Genre worlds
My part
I directed and ran motion capture sessions for the DJ's performance, and built realtime and pre-baked VFX, cloth simulations for a character and particle effects.
I programmed the platform that carries the DJ through each world, and programmed and animated the cameras. For the Cancún edition, I built an interactive 3D tool to paint fur in real time across a room.
From mocap to show
- 01
Motion capture
Mocap sessions for the DJ's performance.
- 02
Retarget
The capture is retargeted onto DJ Silver.
- 03
Realtime world
Platform and cameras programmed in Unreal Engine.
- 04
Live vote
The crowd's wristbands choose the show's next branch.
- of continuous realtime show
- 1 h
- worlds, one per music genre
- 5
- options in every vote: red or green
- 2
Outcome
Performed live on the Silver Studio stage at Heineken Silver Live Out 2023 in Monterrey, billed in the official lineup alongside The Blaze and The Midnight. Press described the "takeover" in which guests controlled the music with button wristbands.
Behind the scenes
Stack
Unreal Engine · Motion capture · Houdini
Credits
- Client
- Heineken Silver
- Agency
- SUPER Agency
- Production
- Realidad