ABSTRACT
The lighting artist has the power at his fingertips to influencethe atmosphere of a production far more than the majority of his co-workers. His decisions, which are largely based on how light behaves in the real world, set the mood of the story and directly affect our perception of the script. However, often the creative vision of a script goes somewhere beyond our everyday reality. This is arguably more often the case than not when it comes to CG. As a result, to convince us that what we’re seeing is as real as possible, it’s often also the lighting artist’s job to employ visual devices to reinforce the illusions of CG.
