When all the DI (Digital Intermediate) stuff started about ten years ago, one of the most difficult things to achieve technically was to match the colour of the interactive display with the output of the lab. At that time, we started to hear about LUTs: Lookup Tables. Since then, LUTs have been implemented pretty much…
Most colorists have had a marathon session at some time. By marathon I mean very, very long (30 hours is my personal record!) or very, very challenging, which is often even tougher. However, I have found that all colorists at some stage in their career, also hit the infamous “wall” just like every marathon runner.…
International Colorist Academy (ICA) Co-Founder, Kevin Shaw Presents Digital Vision Film Master Operations Training September 27-29, 2010 Digital Vision and International Colorist Academy (ICA) have announced that Kevin Shaw, co-founder of ICA, is now an authorized Digital Vision Nucoda Film Master Operations Training instructor. The two types of Nucoda Film Master Operations Training classes are…
ICA Expands Training Team, and Announces New Courses Los Angeles, Vancouver, London, Paris, Sydney International Colorist Academy (ICA) has expanded its training team with the addition of Dan Harvey and Blake Jones. ICA now has seven experienced instructors that provide a variety of training courses on colorist strategies, commercial grading, on-set coloring for the RED…
Hi, I’m a finishing Colourist by trade and recently had the opportunity to work as an on-set Colourist. It’s turned out to be very interesting to learn the technology and see what the crews have to go through. I just finished a 3 week shoot for a Steven Seagal film in Vancouver Canada. We shot…
We had a great week of courses in Burbank, Los Angeles and would like to thank Keith and David at Roush Media for being such excellent hosts! The Introduction Day and Popular Looks are new classes, but the feedback was excellent and I will be introducing them to other locations. Colorists from Italy, UK, Mexico,…
The London class was held from May 10th to May 12th 2010 in the Digital Vision training room in Wardour Street, which is a short walk from most of the major facilities in town. Nine colorists from diverse backgrounds attended, some from London, and some from Norway, Finland, Poland and Turkey. Between us we had…
“The Genius of Beauty” A DI film grade through the eyes of a freelance Colorist I met film producer Ravi Vedant, at Singapore’s Broadcast Asia show in June 2009. I was demoing the Resolve for Media Village the DaVinci distributor. Ravi and I sat and discussed RED footage, workflows and the looks that could be…
A very memorable show, not least because of the volcanic interruption that has kept many of us from returning home! I only managed a few after hours demos, so was pleased to read Lornes blog. The show was big. Not at its biggest but 88,044 up from 82,650 last year. And we all found it…