Destiny 2: Lightfall - First Contact (2023)

For Lightfall, I worked on lighting for a variety of environments and cinematics. This post focuses on the Cabal environments featured in the first Mission of Lightfall's campaign, First Contact. We've shipped a great number of Cabal interiors over the years which have included multiple different factions - like Caiatl's allied Cabal, the Red Legion, etc.

In the opening mission of Lightfall we board a couple of Cabal ships that are part of Calus' Shadow Legion fleet - a new Cabal faction. When defining the direction for Shadow Legion ship interiors we aligned on Gold and Black being the primary environment color treatment. Lighting then leaned into gold and orange, allowing Neptune to act as natural source of cool light peppered throughout the experience.