YUNGBLUD feat. Steven Tyler—Ozzy Tribute

Performance at the VMAs

STORY

At the 2025 MTV VMAs, a tribute was held for Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away earlier that summer. The performance brought together Yungblud, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Nuno Bettencourt for a medley of Ozzy’s most iconic songs, including Crazy Train, Changes, and Mama, I’m Coming Home.

Green Wall Designs created the screen content visuals for the tribute. We custom built a gothic cathedral environment inspired by Ozzy’s iconography, complete with bat gargoyles, skulls, and dark architectural motifs. The entire environment was modeled and rendered in Houdini, giving the performance a visual language that matched the scale and intensity of the music. Our goal was to create visuals that honored Ozzy’s legacy, reinforcing the atmosphere of each song while supporting the live band on stage. The design connected the tribute’s energy to both the audience in the arena and viewers watching the broadcast.

Process

For the Ozzy Osbourne tribute at the 2025 VMAs, we took his persona as the “Prince of Darkness” into careful consideration. We created a 3D church environment, iterating on style, angles and more to capture a dark and dramatic energy.

As the sequence evolved, it became angelic, projecting images from Ozzy’s life to complement the live performance by Yungblud and Steven Tyler, balancing theatrical intensity with a celebration of his legacy.

CREDITS

Artist

Ozzy Osbourne

Feat.

YUNGBLUD

With

Steven Tyler

With

Joe Perry (Aerosmith)

With

Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme)

VMAs Showrunners

Den of Thieves

VMAs Performance Creative Producers

Nick Florez & RJ Durell

VMAs Screens Creative Producers

Visual Noise Creative

VMAs Production Design

Matt Steinbrenner, SteinDesign

VMAs Lighting Design

Tom Sutherland, DX7 Design

Screen Content Visuals

Green Wall Designs

Creative Director

David Nordström Abelli

Content Producer

Leah Younesi

Motion Graphics Designers

Andreas Strömquist, Julia Chew, Nisse Westfelt, Erik Hjarkeus

Screens Producer

Trevor Burke

Associate Screens Producer

Phil Kong

Technical Producer

Zak Haywood

Screens Programmer

Kirk Miller

Pipeline TD

Zach Peletz

YUNGBLUD feat. Steven Tyler—Ozzy Tribute

Performance at the VMAs

STORY

Process

CREDITS

Artist

Feat.

With

With

With

VMAs Showrunners

VMAs Performance Creative Producers

VMAs Screens Creative Producers

VMAs Production Design

VMAs Lighting Design

Screen Content Visuals

Creative Director

Content Producer

Motion Graphics Designers

Screens Producer

Associate Screens Producer

Technical Producer

Screens Programmer

Pipeline TD

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