Based in San Antonio, TX, Wizard Music is a music education and multimedia studio that focuses on fostering a creative community where musicians and artists emerge. Beyond music instruction, Wizard Music is also a production company focused on delivering exceptional audio and video for conventions.
The Wizard Music team has a deep connection with the anime and comic con community both in Texas and further afield and is often present at a range of conventions to broadcast these events to online audiences. To date, the Wizard Music team has helped shape and power video production for the biggest events in Texas, including the likes of Riverwalk Anime Giganticon, Big Texas Comic Con, Corpus Christi Comic Con and San Japan Anime and Gaming
Convention.
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Transforming digital productions with video
Wizard Music’s first experience of Vizrt came via a friend, a Vizrt employee, who spoke with the Wizard Music team about how best to support the audio capabilities of their productions. This colleague introduced the team to the potential of including video and quickly demoed to them
the capabilities of TriCaster.
The incorporation of video as part of the production experience was essential for Wizard Music because, at events like San Japan, ‘VTubers’ shape a huge part of the experience. VTubers, short for Virtual YouTubers, are online entertainers that use a computer-generated or anime avatar to stream videos and interact with audiences.
Wizard Music has integrated a range of teleconferencing services into their workflow to
seamlessly bring in VTuber talent for live and virtual events. While Zoom is a commonly used tool, the team also leverages other platforms including ping.gg, a service popular among Twitch creators, to ensure flexibility and reliability.
By using Buffers, the Wizard Music team also brings in webpages directly into the TriCaster, further expanding their creative possibilities. These tools allow them to onboard VTuber talent individually and place each one into a fully managed virtual stage environment, eliminating the need for talent to handle any technical elements on their end.
Bringing versatility to production
Since their initial introduction to TriCaster [8 years ago], the Wizard Music team has experimented with a range of different TriCasters.
Wizard Music initially relied on the TriCaster TC1 for many of their events, leveraging its
capabilities for simple switching and delivering separate outputs to projection screens in more compact setups. As their productions scaled, particularly with the introduction of a video wall and their first VTuber show with VShojo in 2023, they integrated a second TC1 to access additional M/Es and outputs, enabling them to stream directly to VShojo’s livestream and support the debut of new talent.
With the expansion into larger, more complex events, the TriCaster 2 Elite became their primary switcher, offering extensive output flexibility, talent-specific feeds, and precise timing displays. The TriCaster has also been instrumental in projection mapping across multiple LED walls, creating immersive, seamless environments for concerts and afterparties, often in conjunction with Resolume for dynamic VJing. For smaller scale VTuber meet-and-greet activations, Wizard Music turned to the portable TriCaster Mini, which provided a quick and mobile solution without compromising production quality.
Bringing VTubers to life
What is key to the Wizard Music team is how essential the TriCaster is to all aspects of their
productions. “Vizrt and TriCaster make our production possible,” shares Gross Angel Guzman, Production Assistant, Wizard Music. “The TriCaster is the central nervous system of our operation. Everything goes into it and is then sent back out for the audience. I get to see the crowd most of the time, and it’s wild to see. They’re in love.”
Despite the conventions being an in-person event, there are huge demands for experiences that translate the action to audiences tuning in remotely. For the Wizard Music team, this means ensuring all aspects of the in-person events are covered in a way that best enhances these experiences at home. Similarly, given the huge popularity of VTubers, knowing how to bring these characters to audiences in-person at conventions is a huge goal for the team – and one that they achieve with ease via TriCaster.
TriCaster-driven experiences
In addition to powering live productions, the Wizard Music team utilizes their TriCaster systems to record events in high quality for post-event promotion across various conventions. These recordings are repurposed into polished highlight reels and marketing content, extending the lifecycle of each production beyond the live moment.
Likewise, the TriCaster is essential for enabling seamless streaming to multiple media platforms, ensuring broad audience reach while maintaining a consistently professional and refined visual standard across every event they support.
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