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What Video Game Lighting Teaches Us About Studio Photography
The Hidden Curriculum in Interactive Media I’ve spent considerable time studying how major video game productions approach lighting and visual composition. There’s a reason AAA titles command such attention from cinematographers and photographers—they’re solving the same fundamental problems we face in the studio, just with different constraints. Recent announcements about major game expansions remind me why I monitor this space closely. When development studios invest heavily in new content, they’re typically refining their entire visual pipeline, including how light behaves in their environments.
