The voice, and the face
Eliana de Piero
Featured vocalist on the track, and the heroine of every tableau. Her double was built from her own photos, then dressed in the feather dress that never leaves her, whatever world she wakes up in next.
Fiesta, Fiesta · Official music video · 2 min 25
3TOON Studio · 2025
Where it comes from
Three words and no script
Laurent Wolf is a French DJ and producer, known internationally for No Stress. For Fiesta Fiesta, the summer single he produced with Jamiryo, with Eliana de Piero on vocals, he wanted a video, and he came with three words rather than a script: poetic, dreamlike, and above all délire, the word that kept coming back in every conversation. A happy delirium, the kind nobody can storyboard in advance.
So the film was found rather than written. Universe after universe was proposed in images: a Mexican village full of trumpeters, a 1950s underwater musical, a space shuttle, a tea party with cats, a music box, a shipwreck with mermaids. Laurent kept what matched his inner world. The thread that holds it all together came late: a singer in a dress of red, blue and yellow feathers, and the blue parrots that follow her everywhere, from a New York taxi to a grand cabaret, from the South American jungle up into the sky.
Laurent’s own release notes call the track a celebration of sunshine, freedom and pure joy. The video takes the joy literally: every tableau is a party, and every party is a little more delirious than the last.
The video dates from April 2025. Keeping a face consistent from one shot to the next was still a feat then. It took a model trained on Eliana de Piero’s own photos, a second one for the Technicolor look, a mix of proprietary video generators and open-source tools, and a face pass on almost every shot. The singer on screen is her, in every frame, without a single day on set.
Poétique. Onirique. Délire.
Poetic. Dreamlike. Delirious.
The brief, in Laurent Wolf’s three words
The two leads
The singer and her parrots
The chorus
The parrots
Blue macaws follow the singer from the first shot to the last: on her shoulder in the taxi, over the red carpet, in the cockpit of the shuttle, until the feathers become wings and she flies with them into the sunset. They are the thread of the film, and the reason it holds together.
Muévete con ritmo en la luna llena.
From the lyrics · Under the full moon
The video, tableau by tableau
From a New York taxi to the sky
New York
The trench coat
A feather collar under a camel coat, and the first parrots on the avenue.
The cabaret
The red carpet
The dress in full, under the FIESTA arch, with the crowd behind the ropes.
The jungle
The title
The name of the song, spelled in feathers over a waterfall.
The shuttle
Two co-pilots
Headset on, parrots on both sides. Délire, as requested.
The tea party
Cats invited
Tea is served under a ceiling of feathers.
The wreck
Castaway
A shipwreck, three mermaids, and a smile.
The revue
Red, blue, yellow
The dress, multiplied: a full chorus line in feathers.
The village
The trumpeters
A sunny street somewhere in Mexico, brass all around.
The sky
The flight
The feathers become wings. The last tableau, and the way out.
The craft
Consistency, the hard way
In April 2025, no video model could hold a face across a hundred shots. The pipeline had to be built: a custom model trained on Eliana de Piero’s photos, a second one trained on Super Panavision 70 stills for the Technicolor glamour, and a written formula for the dress, repeated in every prompt.
Each tableau started as a still image, was animated by whichever generator did that motion best, then went through a face pass to bring the singer back wherever the generator had drifted, and lip sync for the sung close-ups. Hundreds of takes for two and a half minutes of film. Cut and finished in After Effects. Twenty-seven years of animation craft behind every frame.
- Flux
- Kling
- Runway
- Luma
- FaceFusion
- Hedra
- After Effects