Case Study: Sholight, LLC achieves flawless, time-saving 3D lighting design for high-profile tours and events with VectorWorks

Sholight, LLC - Customer Case Study

Sholight, LLC is a Philadelphia-based entertainment lighting design firm founded by Tyler E. Littman that specializes in concert tours, events, TV/film and large-scale installations. The company faced highly constrained, high-profile projects — notably a Super Bowl Saturday Night Concert staged feet from the ocean with a modular roof, strict weight and hanging limits and no dry run due to last‑minute storm damage, and a Jonas Brothers tour that required quickly adapting a complex rig for smaller venues and a South American run with different equipment.

Littman and his team relied on Vectorworks Designer to build precise 3D models, export files to Vision, AutoCAD and GrandMA 3D, and use a mobile visualizer and preprogramming to virtually program and validate the shows. The approach allowed them to solve rigging and weight issues, preserve the original design intent, and execute the events on schedule — delivering a flawless Super Bowl concert for ~20,000 attendees and reproducing the Jonas Brothers’ look successfully across varied venues and an international tour.

Sholight, LLC

Tyler E. Littman

Principal Designer and Owner