Visual Direction · Red Rocks Amphitheatre · Morrison, CO · April 2025

LIVE AT RED ROCKS

Sublime + Codefendants · Morrison, CO · April 2025 · 9,450 Seats

Visual Direction — Gonz Veloz

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Visual director at the live rig — soundcheck at Red Rocks

Visual Director · Live Rig
Red Rocks · Exterior Stage
T–2 hrs to doors

Codefendants full band performing at Red Rocks — LED screen showing animated stick figure motion system

Full Set · LED System Active
Morrison, CO · April 2025

9,000 Seats.
One Continuous
Visual System.

Guitarist performing at Red Rocks — white Jazzmaster guitar, LED screen in background

Codefendants
Red Rocks · Full Set

9,450

Capacity

90+

Motion Cues

Visual System

The Brief

Built for the Room

Codefendants needed a visual language for Red Rocks — not a clip show, but a system. One that could breathe with the band, survive the daylight, and hold up on a screen the size of a building.

Orange. Black. White. Every element designed to read at 200 feet and feel alive up close.

Visual Direction Gonz Veloz / La Hacienda

The Work

Not Loops. A Language.

Every frame was mapped to the setlist. Every transition had intention. The system ran clean. Every frame hit its mark.

Full contact sheet — 90+ motion cues from the Red Rocks visual system, arranged in a grid

Full Visual System · 90+ Motion Cues · Red Rocks 2025

Codefendants visual system running live at Red Rocks — motion system in action

The System · Live · Red Rocks 2025

Motion Language

Silhouettes, geometry, glitch bursts — each motif was assigned to a song, a section, a mood. Nothing was decorative. Everything triggered with intention.

Pacing Architecture

The setlist was mapped beat-for-beat before a single clip was exported. Visual density tracked the band's energy curve. When they peaked, the system peaked.

Color System

Three colors. No more. Orange + black + white for max read at stadium scale. Every choice ran through the "50-foot LED test" before it touched the rig.

Setlist Coverage

Defcons Abscessed Suicide by Pigs The Fix Fast Ones Right Wrong Man Counting Back from 13 Bad Business Lonely Life Sell Me Youth

Brutiful — Heroes Are Human

Abscessed — Lyric Video

The Brief

Designed,
Not Decorated

The band wanted something that felt built, not just played. Something that could hold its own at a venue that's been hosting legends for 100 years. Red Rocks doesn't tolerate mediocrity — the rocks themselves set the bar.

Codefendants on stage — full LED visual system in operation

The System

Modular Triggers,
Not Linear Exports

Built in Resolve. Triggered live. No linear exports — every clip was a module, mapped and ready. The director read the room and called the architecture in real time.

Live visual control rig at Red Rocks — soundcheck

The Show

Soundcheck at
Altitude

Soundcheck at altitude. Doors in two hours. The system ran clean — 9,450 people, one continuous visual arc from opener to encore.

Guitarist performing against the LED visual system

LIVE AT RED ROCKS

Built for the Room