Ornate virtual concert interior lit by warm practical lights

Lighting the stage

Virtual concerts — ZOAN

Lighting, Blueprint interaction and environment work for virtual concert productions developed with ZOAN.

Role: Technical Artist — lighting, Blueprints & chroma key
Studio: ZOAN
Output: Virtual concert production
Tools: Unreal Engine 4 · Blueprints

The context

Real-time concert production

Create virtual environments and visual treatments that integrate with live and recorded performance workflows for Nightwish, Alma and JVG.

My contribution

As part of ZOAN’s virtual-production research team, I worked on main scene lighting, music-driven Blueprint interaction, environment adjustments and chroma-key tuning.

The approach

The real-time environment and lighting needed to sit coherently with performance footage and production constraints. I worked closely with the production team on scene adjustments, lighting and integration.

Lighting
Technical Art
Environments

Selected images

Project views.

Virtual-stage environment and production views.

Virtual venue detail with barrels and warm wall lights

Process

Inside Unreal Engine.

Unreal Engine environment, sequence and production setup.

Unreal Engine editor showing the virtual concert venue — Virtual venue inside Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine editor with concert environment and sequence tracks — Environment and sequence work

In motion

Cinematic sequences.

Selected video from this work.

Virtual concert production

Watch on YouTube ↗

Outcome

Delivered work.

Real-time concert environments, lighting and production sequences integrated into virtual-performance workflows.

ZOAN production team. Alfonso Escalona — lighting, Blueprint interaction, environment adjustments and chroma key integration. Concert artists: Nightwish, Alma and JVG.