Helios Immersive is the studio of Alexander England. Live visuals, projection and LED mapping, 3D motion design and DMX lighting for artists, venues and brands across the Pacific Northwest.
34 s reel · Seattle clubs & festivals · music: Quackson
Club nights and festivals, 3D motion for artists and brands, and the custom TouchDesigner tools I build to run it all.
A logo reveal for Orbital Computers. The camera skims a dark board as light routes through the traces into a CPU package, and the OC mark powers up on the die.
Visuals mixed live in Resolume Arena and TouchDesigner for Seattle club nights and outdoor festivals, on LED walls, projectors and round stages, alongside lasers and haze.
Projection-mapped effects for a wall of prints by local artist Thaddeus Hunnicutt at the Seattle Art Walk. Each piece got its own masked layer of light and motion over its planets, starfields and crystal forms. The loop opens with the prints unlit, then the mapping switches on.
Artist promo
A chibi of the DJ Just Javi, built from his 2D avatar, rigged, and dropped behind the decks on a full virtual stage with his logo on the LED wall. Every gesture is timed to phone footage of his real set.
Custom tool
My own TouchDesigner lighting component. Patch fixtures, build looks, map them to a MIDI controller and run the lights in sync with the visuals from one project. It drops into a show file and sets up fast at a new venue.
Real-time
Audio-reactive scenes I designed and play out live: Mandelbulb, Hypercube, Xbox Reactor, Feedback Grid, Prismatic Forest, Tornado Nebula and the Bass Cube.
A live performer captured with a Kinect depth sensor and rebuilt as a shimmering point cloud. The figure shifts color from emerald to red to gold as it moves, so the people on stage become part of the visuals.
A live camera feed restyled frame by frame into a neon cyberpunk city, with StreamDiffusion running inside TouchDesigner. The person in frame stays readable as a silhouette while the world around them keeps regenerating, so anyone on stage can step inside the visuals.
From the first render to the last cue of the night. I design the content, build the tools, configure the machines and run the show.
Visuals mixed live to the DJ for club nights, festivals and artist sets, with show content tailored to each act.
Content mapped onto stages, walls, LED panels and odd-shaped surfaces, with venue AV or my own projector.
Stylized and photoreal Blender animation for music artists, corporate branding, product showcases, film and data visualization.
DMX programming for fixtures, haze and effects, driven from the same project as the visuals so light and video move together.
Audio-reactive and interactive pieces, Kinect point clouds, and custom real-time video-to-video AI transformations.
Workstation and media server setup, live event AV and video conferencing systems, backed by years of building and supporting workstations.
I started out playing animated visuals and clips at electronic music events. Once people noticed the work, Seattle promoters began booking me to run visuals for their nights, and Helios Immersive grew out of that.
The mission is to be a force multiplier for talented artists: give great music a visual layer that fits it exactly, so it lands harder in the room.
I also bring a deep hardware background. I spent five years at Puget Systems building and supporting workstations for content creators and virtual production teams, and I now lead business development at Orbital Computers. I've also produced and sound-designed electronic music as Zenomoth since 2014, so I cut to the track the way a producer hears it.
Also: Orbital Computers · Thaddeus Hunnicutt · Seattle Art Walk
Send the date, the venue or platform, and a link to the music. I'm based 40 minutes north of Seattle and travel for larger shows.
