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Meet the photo mode consultant making video game screenshots an art form
Virtual photographer Ludovic "Shinobi" Helme has turned video game photo mode into a professional art form. His striking screenshot from A Plague Tale: Innocence captures three children amid a devastated battlefield with a lone trebuchet standing. Helme works as a consultant, advising game developers on how to improve their in-game photography tools.
Three children stare at the dilapidated remains of a battlefield, with trees and man-made structures mostly razed to the ground, save for the sturdy frame of a lone trebuchet. It's a pensive snapshot of the bloodshed in A Plague Tale: Innocence by virtual photographer Ludovic Shinobi Helme - but it's no mere screenshot. It's a [ #8230;]