Hi, I can’t believe this year is almost over. I just finished a series of 6 films with Steven Seagal. Now I have time to catch up with Warren and Kevin and see what’s happening with the ICA. Last summer, before things got busy, I started to put a class together dealing with being an…
The ICA L.A. Training Center is up and running. We have partnered with Roush Media an established DI Post facility to provide a permanent American home for Colorist training. Roush Media is situated in Burbank, California, just outside Los Angeles, 45 minutes from LAX airport. Our first set of classes were in a large temporary…
While running the recent ICA “Warren’s Looks” class last month in Singapore I got an e-mail from Andy Ho post producer at Digipost Vietnam. He needed a colorist to grade a commercial the following Sunday, and asked if I was interested? I was very keen, but could I fit it in? That night I called…
CC Chan from ACC in Hong Kong called me in December 2009 and said… “I have the very last new DaVinci 2K Plus here in my office, it’s going into the BFA in Beijing, would you like to oversee the training?” I thought of it as the end of an era, so said I’d love…
I am often asked,“What are the benefits of an ICA class and who should attend?” Here are Warren’s answers: The ICA offer a number of classes what are the differences? Colorists Strategies is a class you cannot learn from a book. It is a mixture of a number of elements that go into making…
“Such is Life” The troubled times of grading Ben Cousins by Warren Eagles. Ben Cousins is a very famous Australian Aussie rules footballer who has had a very traumatic career on and off the field. I got involved with the Cousins project just 3 weeks before the on air date. Channel Seven had just bought…
10 years ago things use to be so much simpler… As a Colorist visiting IBC you only had 2 choices in color correction, DaVinci 2K or Pandora Pogle. We would spend ½ day looking at each, another day looking at Telecine machines. We all used Sony CRT monitors so nothing new to look at there…
This is a general overview movie from me about Resolve, recorded at the SuperMeet in Amsterdam last week in front of 10,000 people!! Click on Movie #4 Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve
A big show this year, and we all experienced the rush. In fact it was the second busiest IBC ever with 48,164 attendees from 140 countries. (The busiest show was 2008 with about 5% more visitors) The show floor was also bigger (100, 000 sq meters) as they opened a new thirteenth hall. In all…