OVERVIEW

As part of the Vita Motus team, HNZLR was embedded across a long-running slate of international projects, culminating in a creative relationship with Hunan TV- one of China’s premier broadcast giants. The apex of this collaboration was their 2019 New Year’s Eve celebration, a stadium megashow.

HNZLR’s contributions were critical across several domains:

• Scenic Sculpting – Modeled and posed monumental human figures that served as the symbolic and spatial centerpiece of the show.

• Visual Language Design - Pioneered the use of XR goggle motifs rendered through lighting fixtures, bridging sci-fi iconography with stage technology.

• Cinematic Tethering Concept - Concepted the “neural wiring” system: retro-futuristic cable paths extending from the heads of the figures, running across the deck in a circuit-like network.

• Satellite Stage Architectures - Designed and modeled the twin sub-stages flanking the main deck, enabling multi-directional performance flow.

• Real-Time Visualization - Led Unreal Engine visualization and created cinematic flythroughs that captivated stakeholders and greenlit the final design.

• Technical Production – Produced fabrication-ready CAD for physical realization.

Philosophy & Form

The stage unfolds as an immersive sculptural environment: a central thrust flanked by twin elemental sub-stages, each loosely inspired by the Wuxing philosophy. The hand-sculpted goddess busts, finished in silver leaf and adorned with augmented reality eyewear, are “plugged” into the circuitry floor network, forging a symbolic link between ancient wisdom and speculative futurism. This concept, an interdependent digital mythology, struck a deep chord with Chinese audiences.