ANYMA's AEDEN World Tour 2026 extends a visual language rooted in Alessio De Vecchi's pre-ANYMA creative practice. EVA — the flagship ANYMA character and the primary IP De Vecchi brought into the partnership — was conceptualized in 2019 and executed in 2020, a year before the project had a name. The 3D character asset that would later become LILITH — head, body, and facial animation system — was built for De Vecchi's film project UTAE in July 2019, where it existed as "super utae." The asset carried into ANYMA in 2022 and was renamed LILITH when placed within the character universe; EVA and LILITH both entered ANYMA carrying their complete visual identities from De Vecchi's prior practice, with their ANYMA-specific surface treatment designed by De Vecchi in creative dialogue with Matteo Milleri.
Alongside these characters, De Vecchi's pre-ANYMA creative practice includes the robotic-humanoid aesthetic, Sphere-scale concept sketches, and the cyborg series released on SuperRare in 2020. This body of work is what first brought De Vecchi and Milleri into partnership in 2021. From that point forward, De Vecchi co-directed the ANYMA visual identity across every phase of the project — the characters, the aesthetic grammar, and the production pipeline — from the live debut at Printworks London to the Sphere Las Vegas residency.
AEDEN inherits this visual language. Every aesthetic decision — color palette, lighting philosophy, character silhouette — traces to a design system stress-tested across Printworks, Tomorrowland, The Brooklyn Mirage, a collaboration with The Weeknd, and twelve sold-out shows inside the world's largest LED display.
For AEDEN, De Vecchi and his team created a self-contained mini-act — four movements forming their own narrative arc.
The creative antecedents run deeper than AEDEN itself. De Vecchi's Visual Bible — a comprehensive design system document created in November 2023 — established the aesthetic framework, character language, and narrative architecture that inform every ANYMA production, including AEDEN. The Bible codified the rules governing light, surface, proportion, and emotional register across the ANYMA visual universe. It is the reference document production teams use to maintain visual coherence at scale.
AEDEN's conceptual architecture — a journey through realms of increasing metaphysical weight, structured around Dante's Divine Comedy — was first articulated in De Vecchi's DREAMS pitch document, a 63-page visual framework completed in late 2023. The name AEDEN itself — a portmanteau of ADE (the Amsterdam Dance Event, but also a reference to the infernal) and EDEN (paradise) — was coined by De Vecchi in November–December 2023, with creation metadata timestamped in Miro.
The Lucypher character — the central figure of De Vecchi's AEDEN work — carries his own likeness. Lucypher's facial geometry is derived from photogrammetric scans of De Vecchi: the creator embedded in the creation. Design iterations are tracked from late 2023 through 2025.
The act explores the figure of Lucifer — not wrathful or diabolical, but defeated. A being reigning over a world of errors and glitch, steering architecture and perception from a throne of resignation. Four movements trace a descent through failure, loss, imprisonment, and the quiet devastation of knowing you built the world you're trapped in. The visual language is fractured geometry, corrupted structure, beauty that keeps almost resolving and never does.
EVA is the flagship ANYMA IP and the primary character De Vecchi brought into the partnership from his pre-ANYMA creative practice. She was a complete character — head, body, and cinematic context — in De Vecchi's independent creative practice before ANYMA existed. She remains present in the AEDEN live production: the visible anchor of the continuity between Genesys and AEDEN.
"[Alessio De Vecchi has been] involved with the project since its inception."- Variety, January 2025
"Visual Director Alessio De Vecchi has been a core partner since the project's inception, working alongside Milleri to ensure the music and visuals are created as one cohesive canvas."- Alexander Wessely (Office Magazine)
"Art direction by visual co-creative director Alessio De Vecchi."
"Its visuals have no rival and it's all thanks to Alessio De Vecchi."- EDM.com, Best Visual Artist 2023
"A brilliant visual artist, foundational to the show."- Alexander Wessely on De Vecchi (Flaunt Magazine)