The second-ever TwitchCon Talent Show ran on the Glitch Stage on the final day of TwitchCon 2017 at the Long Beach Convention Center, streamed live on twitch.tv/twitch. Thirteen acts across music, dance and poetry, picked from open video auditions. This is the segment's opening title, built in the stage screen's ultra-wide format (the Glitch Stage ran three LED panels, so the master delivers edge-to-edge across all three) and leaning into a gold-and-black art-deco "showtime" look to set it apart from the rest of the show package. A framework of art-deco beams and panels tumbles through space, each one carrying footage from an act's audition (a violinist, singers, guitarists, dancers, a bassist) before the camera flies through and everything snaps into a symmetrical deco marquee with the "TALENT SHOW" badge dead center. The detail I cared most about: the performers' own audition videos are woven into the piece, reflected across the art-deco structure, so the first thing each act saw as they walked out was themselves, up on the giant LED wall. It felt like the right way to welcome people who'd sent in a video hoping for exactly this. Made on Twitch's in-house motion team, alongside the Cosplay Contest intro.
The Glitch Stage itself was ours too: Mike Williams and I designed the main stage for TwitchCon 2017, so the ultra-wide screen this open was built for was one we'd drawn up ourselves.
Credits
- Design, 3D & Animation
- Ryan Johnson
- Glitch Stage Design
- Ryan Johnson & Mike Williams
- Production
- Twitch