The Color Tour Podcast is a relaxed chat with colorists based in different locations around the globe. Warren Eagles visits their city and records the podcast in their grading room and a local bar. The Color Tour focuses on the creative side of grading and looks at what inspires and motivates each colorist.
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Post NAB 2024 I was invited to the latest Colorist Society Hollywood meet up. Held on the rooftop at the Godfrey Hotel in Hollywood I chatted to a number of top colorists in attendance about how and why they joined the Chapter and what they are currently working on.
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During my recent trip to the US I caught up with Christopher Young owner and Colorist at See Why Color in Brooklyn.
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Thomas is the senior colorist and CEO of the Post House ‘The Look.’ They are responsible for shows like Sex Education, Top Boy and Landscapers.
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The Color Tour Podcast visits Park City in Utah to chat with Crash Carlucci.
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The Color Tour Podcast is back with a fantastic live on YouTube Live chat re NAB/Colorist Mixer 2023.
Intro – Hosts: Warren Eagles, Kevin Shaw, Jeff Greenberg and 10 special guests
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Kali grew up in a small country town. She progressed from Film School to junior coloring jobs via editing to the dizzy heights of grading Elvis. We chat about the early days of grading for tattoos right up to being a VFX colorist at D-Neg in Vancouver.
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Darren has been colouring for over 20 years but has recently been better known for his Resolve tips YouTube Channel. He is also a producer, making high end corporate content shooting around the world. I visited in July so ideal for our pub courtyard colorist chit chat session.
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Rebecca Goodeve has a ton of varied experience for someone so young. She has worked at both large and boutique post houses, and built her own boutique post house in Leigh on Sea
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Dave Hughes is an old school film colorist who worked all over Europe before returning to Ireland to run a Baselight at Windmill Lane in Dublin.
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I recently chatted to one of Africa’s leading Color Graders the ‘Accidental Colorist’ Bobola Oniwura.
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Maxine is a Hollywood A list Colorist. Her credits include big tent pole titles like Book of Eli and Black Panther in a list of over 60 films.
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Setyo is as he says laughing, “I’m one of three gun colorists in Malaysia” He was born in Indonesian before moving to KL. He scored a job at the Blackmagic Design Post House as a VT op and worked his way up to being a senior colorist. Setyo now runs his own Color grading shop in KL.
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Bob Festa has been coloring for nearly 40 years. As he says, “there is nothing I haven’t seen in front or behind me in a session!”
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Gino is one of the leading color graders in Peru. I first met Gino when he came to my iColorist NYC class in 2012. It was great catching up again for the CT Podcast.
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Juan started his first company aged 17 in Madrid, Spain. He prepped for his first color grade by reading the Mistika manual on a 5 hour car drive from Madrid to Malaga. Once in Malaga he graded his first short film and his career as a colorist was launched.
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I visited Toby at CHEAT in 2018. It is a fantastic facility situated in Hackney East London, very close to where I went to school. We checked out his facility and then went to his local pub for a pie and a pint
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Walter is one of the world’s leading Color graders. He has coloured over 100 features including Green Book, Star Wars The Last Jedi, and Dunkirk. Walter is currently working for Company 3.
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Junbin Chen is one of the top colorists based in Singapore. This is our pre COVID-19 chat that took place at a post house called Iceberg. JB has coloured over 25 features, 20 TV series and 100s of TVCs.
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Chema Alba is one of Spain’s premier color graders. Chema talks about the transition from film grader to coloring Netflix TV shows. He started out at a film scanning company. Handling film gave him the taste for colouring so he pursued the big manufactures to loan him a machine so he could practice.
This showed his enthusiasm, because at the time he wasn’t a colorist and the systems were over $300,000!
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Marc Wielage is a veteran Colorist based in Hollywood. He has been grading for 40 years and has the credits and stories to prove it. The chat starts at his shop in Hollywood before moving to legendary Hollywood restaurant Canters. Lots of people know him from the many different color forums he follows. Marc has helped many colorists at all levels, so this is a chance to get his backstory.
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Leo Otero is a master colorist working in Bogota, Colombia. He has his own facility called 2.35.
Leo works mainly on movies and longform projects. Warren chats with Leo in his Bogota Post House before taking the short walk to a local bar where is joined with Diego Yhama from Colombia and Javier Guevara from Argentina. What is it like colouring in South America an how does each country differ
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This episode really gets to the heart of what the Color Tour Podcast is all about.
Dario Bigi is New York through and through. Born in Queens he has been an East Village resident for over 20 years now. He is an owner operator and runs his
grading shop out of his apartment. Dario is the first CT Podcast colorist who hasn’t come via the traditional telecine grading route. We move from his rooftop to his grading set up. Before venturing 200 yards down the street to a swanky East Village cocktail bar.
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Kevin Shaw has been a colorist for over 30 years. He has worked full-time in London, Italy and Switzerland, and also started the da-vinci training academy in Florida. Kevin co founded the International Colorist Academy and is a driving force behind the Colorist Society International. He currently lives in London, but we took this opportunity to record the Podcast whilst in Beijing last year.
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Alter Ego is one of the premier post facilities in the world. Based in Toronto, Alter Ego was founded 10 years ago by Australian Colorists Eric Whipp and Wade Odlum. They specialise in colouring on Baselight but the facility has grown to add VFX and production to it’s roster. The guys balance colouring TVCs, managing over 50 staff, and still manage to grade blockbuster feature films…..how do they do it?
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Warren chats to Jet in Soho, London about her extensive work history. The move from TVCs to drama, women in color, and what she thinks of Kevin Shaw. Being headhunted — and on the other hand getting fired in Leicester SQ after a movie screening. How do you get five days to grade a one shot Madonna TVC? Jet has colored numerous television commercials and has recently finished the TV series Trust by Danny Boyle. Other notable credits include The Night Manager and Luther.
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This episode comes from Gothenburg on the West Coast of Sweden. It features Nikolai Waldman, colorist and owner at CAN Film. Warren and Nikolai chat about why he loves FSI monitors, grading Volvo trucks shot on Sony cameras and what he was grading in LA recently.
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Warren is in beautiful Auckland, New Zealand for this episode of the Color Tour Podcast chatting to long form colorist Alana Cotton, who works at Images Post and Sound. They start their chat in Alana’s grading theatre before moving to the new harbourfront area where New Zealand will defend the America’s Cup in 2021. Topics discussed include Alana’s thought process when grading a feature, women in film, and why she loves the Baselight.
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Warren chats to Clark Muller at his Nucoda grading shop in Venice Beach. They chat about the challenges of grading in different countries, and why he left Company 3 to start his own company Incendio.
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Warren chats with Paul Hanrahan at Digimax in his Nucoda and Resolve grading suites.
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Episode 2 of the Color Tour was recorded in Las Vegas at the Sixth Annual NAB Colorist Mixer was held on the Sunday before the exhibition opens. Warren takes the mic behind the scenes of the Mixer and finds out what the colorists have been grading and garners their thoughts on the Mixer concept.
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Vincent Taylor is a senior colorist at Chimney NYC. He has recently relocated to New York after a three year stint with MPC in Shanghai. In this podcast, Vincent describes the challenges of working in a foreign country, including clients and their expectations, and the number of hours he spends on a typical project. We start recording in his new room in Manhattan before moving to his local dive bar to continue our conversation.