Los Angeles · 2026

Wuthering Waves 2nd Anniversary

Two days of an anniversary event covered end to end — the stage program, five built environments, and the people who came in costume.

Kuro Games ran the event. This coverage was produced independently and is published as a record of how we work.

Basis: Independent
Year: 2026
Our role: Full-event stills coverage
Frames: 9 published

Official 2nd Anniversary set, blue room · Wuthering Waves 2nd Anniversary · 2026

Cosplayer seated on the blue anniversary plinth with the studio light behind her, blossom branch raised, full costume sharp from head to shoe

The brief we set

A two-day anniversary event for a live-service game, staged in a Los Angeles warehouse with five environments built inside it — a main stage under an LED wall, a deep blue set hung with wisteria, a red-curtain theater set, a pink product activation, and open floor for attendees. We set the brief ourselves and worked it as a full commission: cover all of it, in the time available — the program on stage, the community who came in costume, and the sets themselves as built.

What we did about it

Each of the five environments was treated as its own problem rather than run-and-gun. The blue set was shot toward its own light source so that source stayed in frame as a compositional edge; the stage was shot from the floor so the LED wall reads as the light behind the performer instead of a blown-out rectangle beside her; the activation sets were shot square-on because they were built to be photographed that way and fighting that would have made a worse picture.

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