1. Capture vs. Composition
A Gaussian splat or photogrammetry capture is fundamentally passive. It records light, reflection, and environmental noise exactly as they existed at a single frame in ti... ...me.
It doesn't know where the viewer’s eye should go. It doesn't care about emotional pacing, visual rest areas, or directing attention toward key narrative beats.
When you drop a raw, unedited real-world scan or AI-generated spatial volume into a production scene, you aren't art directing, you're just hosting raw data.
The Capture Trap: Unfiltered reality is often messy, unorganized, and visually chaotic. Replicating reality pixel-for-pixel without artistic judgment doesn't yield a compelling image; it yields visual noise.
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