Personal project

Lighting Study 03

The same corridor as Study 02, relit in real time in Unreal Engine 5.6 — amber decay and suspended time instead of red threat, with the green exit still anchoring the way out.

Lighting Colour Horror UE5

Role

Lighting Artist

Focus

Colour language & mood

Engine

Unreal Engine 5.6

// Overview

Same corridor, different fear

Nothing moved — only the light. Where Study 02 pressed down with red threat, warm pendant lamps now bathe the corridor in amber: decay, abandonment, time suspended. 68% amber and black against the same green exit — the fear shifts from "something is here" to "something happened here".

Horror corridor in amber light — pendant lamps, a lone chair and a green exit anchoring the vanishing point

// Colour palette

Thirty degrees from threat

Eight values, five roles — the same skeleton as Study 02 with the reds swapped for ambers: shadow #1A1200 up to lamp core #E8A020, decay mid #8B6A0A on the walls. The greens barely move (#1A3020 → #00A86B): the exit speaks the same language in both moods. Hue does the storytelling — 0° threatens, 30° mourns.

Colour palette card — ambers for decay, greens for exit, with hex values, roles and distribution

// References

Two photographs set the brief: an abandoned kitchen where a single warm source fights the green, and an amber corridor collapsing into a green interior — decay with a way out.

Reference photo — abandoned kitchen in green light with a warm practical source

Reference photo — decaying amber corridor opening into a green-lit interior

External references — colour & mood study (not my work).

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