The brief
Tri Direction, the Kyiv show creation team behind the creative direction of Luxembourg Song Contest 2026, brought us in for two performances. The idea for Steve Castile’s «Sweet Tooth» came from Tri Direction: on the LED screen, the artist’s shadow becomes a wolf that repeats every move he makes, then bursts apart into a swarm of bats. Our job was to make it real.
No motion-capture studio, just a phone
We worked fully remotely. Instead of a motion-capture suit and a studio session, we sent the team on site a brief: how to film the artist during rehearsal, from where, and what movements we needed. They shot it on an iPhone and sent us the footage.
From that video we captured the artist’s movement and built the AI visuals around it, so the wolf on the screen follows Steve Castile’s real choreography rather than a generic animation. The transformation into bats closes the moment.
A second number: an AI avatar built from photos
For Irem’s «Bad Decisions (Hush Hush)» we created a full AI avatar of the artist from her photos. We generated her silhouette on a green screen and animated it across a series of shots: sensual silhouettes and movement. An artist from Tri Direction’s team then replaced the green screen with colour and edited the final screen content.
What this means for live shows
A live international TV show is an unforgiving test. Both numbers went to air on RTL Lëtzebuerg from Rockhal on 24 January 2026, and both were produced from a different country. AI is no longer an experiment or a gimmick here: in skilled hands it is a production tool that saves travel, studio time and budget.
If your show needs visuals that react to a performer, a rehearsal clip and a clear brief may be all we need to start.