Illusive Lightworks

Work

Projection mapping, interactive installations and visual design.

Demo reel · 1 minute 42 seconds
The Galactic Temple at night: a glowing pyramid tent with a Buddha statue on a projected mandala and two people sitting inside
Installation

Galactic Temple

An interactive Buddha projection experience built inside a custom tent. Visuals are mostly pre-rendered, with real-time effects stacked and composited live in TouchDesigner. The Alien Orb, a custom-built MIDI controller with a Teensy and LEDs, lets people play the visuals.

Same But Different Festival 2026 · TouchDesigner · Teensy · custom MIDI controller

Conan Gray performing on a stage at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, with digital flowers falling across the large stage screens
Stage visuals

Conan Gray, MTV Video Music Awards 2025

Digital flowers for the stage screens behind Conan Gray's performance. The flowers were simulated in Houdini with Vellum, set to blow in the wind, and the simulation data was then passed to Blender.

Houdini · Vellum simulation · Blender

A large projected fluid wall glowing blue at night
Installation

Lightwave Vortex

An interactive fluid wall. A Kinect sensor tracks people in front of the screen, and custom particle systems built in Unreal Engine turn their movement into projected fluid art. Shown at festivals with several different art walls.

PC · NEC projector · Kinect · TouchDesigner · custom particle systems in Unreal Engine

A glowing planet inside a wireframe cube with light streaks, from a stage visuals pack
Stage visuals

Calvin Harris, TRNSMT Festival 2024

A VJ pack of orbit-diagram line work for a main-stage set in Glasgow, rendered at 4K.

Houdini 3D procedural animation

A gold algorithmic mandala with intricate repeating detail, on black
Original visuals

Procedural art and renders

Algorithmic mandalas and high-resolution music-video visuals, generated from code and math. Many of the mandalas are included in the ILW Light Mapper library.

Custom algorithmic code and design with VEX and Python · renders in Karma

A phone held in hand showing the ILW Light Mapper art library, with the same interface projected on the wall behind it next to a framed print
Software

ILW Light Mapper

A projection mapping app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Pin a projection to any wall, door or object, then refine it with masks, warping and color. The home projections in the reel were all made with it.

Built in Unreal Engine · iOS, iPadOS and macOS

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Concert and broadcast footage in the reel belongs to its owners and is shown to illustrate the visuals created for it.