For new years 2026 we’re hosting a fully prerecorded event being held in a new revision of the Aura Grove we’re making for this party!

We’re building a small team working together putting together lights, visuals, lyric videos and whatever other creative ideas you have for this special pre-recorded New Years Event!

About the world:

Aura Grove is the squishyfamily’s party world, a bioluminecent forest with a large tree that turns into a stage.
There is a handful of areas around the floating island with different games to play.
Made in collaboration between me(Squishy) and my good friends Bwibble and Sapphire.
For the new years party we’re working on a brand new updated version!
There will be some new years specific stuff, like fireworks, but we’re also looking to add more cozy areas and other small touches.

Key info:

– The event is centered around midnight in EU and in the US.

– We’re primarily looking for VJs and LDs rn, but feel free to reach out if you want to DJ as well!
We might be able to squeeze a few more in, and if not there is more events upcoming!

– The event is likely going to have one public and one group+ instance

I’m trying to make this event as collaborative as possible, so you don’t have to take responsibility for a full set if you don’t want to! Just want to do certain parts of compositing? Love shooting videos in VR? Don’t really do visuals, but know one hell of a dancer? do lights and wanna do an insane laser show for that one song? Go ham!We still need you! (really! small contributions are still contributions!)

If you have another skillset than these outlined here and think you could contribute elsewhere, don’t hesitate to reach out to Squishy! (join the discord!)

You want to help out? We’re collaborating in the discord!
Link to a private test world is also available there.
The techincal details is likely more updated there as well, as we’re working on things still.

For DJs

You’ll be the main person in charge of your own set, so that if anyone has broader questions they ask you. (you can delegate this to someone else if you want/need)
The goal is for you to have a setlist and/or an early version of your set available soon™, so that the video and light people can get to work! There is a sheet for you to put the setlist into where you can also add notes for the others in what you’d like for a song “I want every zoom to have a laser pls“
You’re more than encouraged to take as much creative control as you’d like, but even if you set yourself as responsible for the video, don’t hesitate to ask for collaborators so you can make it even better! (you’re also free to just let others go ham on your set ofc)

Technical

– Since we want to do a hologram of you, when you’re finished with your set, we should capture a recording of you performing the set. If you want to record this yourself reach out to squishy for technical details of this recording, otherwise we’ll do the recording for you, you just perform :3

– The final product should be an audio or video file of your finished set.

– Setlists and WIP recordings are super helpful if you can share early!

For VJs

We’re looking for one person responsible for a video being finished and rendered out for each set, but that doesn’t mean you have to do it all yourself! Please do collaborate with others!
To claim responsibility for a set, see the document linked in the discord.
If you don’t feel like taking a whole set or just want to learn and contribute, feel free to reach out to the people in charge of sets(or squishy) and collaborate with either taking sections, songs or just helping out with video capture or cool visuals! (or anything else you can think of that would be cool!)

Technical:

Here is the UV and the Mask. Beware that this might change, so check with squishy before finalizing you stuff.
(we might need to make the gridnode larger, and we’re adding the hologram areas)

– Test world is linked in the discord!

– Squishy can help transforming a basic 16:9 video to be usable on there, but its way cooler if its actually made for the screens! Experiment and have fun!

– Let squishy know if you need to borrow a temporary VRCDN key for testing

– Let squishy know if you need a file drop link to share larger files with others

– The final product should be a rendered video matched to the set provided by the DJ

For LDs

For LDs

I’m looking for one person responsible for each set’s lighting, but feel free to let others take sections of it!
If you don’t feel like taking a whole set or just want to learn and contribute, feel free to grab a song from the setlist and let whoever is in charge of it know that you’d like to try!
(this might be a bit more hard to integrate seamlessly, so remember to communicate well here!)
Whenever we start getting the setlists you can just pick whatever set inspires you and start working, just set yourself as responsible in the sheet linked in the discord

Technical:

– Some more fixtures are planned to be added to the world, like fireworks and theme colour control.

– Let squishy know if you need a file drop link to share larger files with others

– The final product should be a recording of your gridnode on a black screen. (I think)(if you have good ideas/alternatives here let squishy know!)

– Let squishy know if you need to borrow a temporary VRCDN key for testing

Do you want to help out? We’re collaborating in the discord!