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The Craft |
- [interview] The color of blood - Colorist Natasha Leonnet's talks about how she became a Colorist and how she achieved those killer looks for her latest film, Robert Rodriguez's 'Machete Kills.' It's a great read. (library.creativecow.net)
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[video] Color breakdown - Montreal-based Colorist Charles Etienne Pascal has a breakdown of a music video he graded in After Effects. (blog.iseehue.com)
- [video] Match this - Another post from Colorist Charles Etienne on shot matching a commercial he recently graded in Lustre. (
blog.iseehue.com)
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The Tools |
- Stylized flashback look - UK-based Editor/Colorist Andrew McKee shows you how to create a fluid flashback look in DaVinci Resolve by applying a shot as an external matte. (pixelwizard.net
via @jonnyelwyn)
- Add color to your highlights
- Rather than keeping your blown highlights a clean white, here's a tip to use the Darken Blending mode in After Effects to add color to them. This tip translates well to NLE's and color grading software. (blog.iseehue.com)
- DaVinci Resolve 10: Fixes Fringing in Magic Lantern RAW Video
- Resolve 9 tended to push the blacks toward magenta in this particular workflow. Other apps didn't do this. Resolve 10 seems to fix that problem. (nofilmschool.com)
- Hawaiki Color: A 3-Way Color Corrector for FCPx - A new plug-in that puts the color wheels back in FCPx. (
nofilmschool.com)
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The Business |
- IBC Wrap: Learning from 'The Hobbit' - High Frame Rate cinema, a new standard for immersive sound in Digital Cinema, laser projectors and the final nails in the coffin of film distribution. All these are recent IBC stories you may find interesting. (hollywoodreporter.com)
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[video] The Universal Law of Innovation: Build It, Break It, Improve It - Google VP Sebastian Thrun has led remarkable teams in the creation of products that will truly change the way the world works in the future. In this 30 minute talk he shares his insights on the universal law of innovation. (vimeo.com)
- TV viewing trends
- Avid recently conducted a global research study into consumer viewing behavior. The result was 5 key insights for broadcasters and advertisers. If you click through, it'll cost you to get this free study... for the price of your contact info. (apps.avid.com)
- Panasonic To Stop Making Plasma Displays For TVs -
With plasma TV market share dropping from 40% to 2.5% in the past three years... Panasonic is selling off their manufacturing plants after losing billions and trying to be less reliant on the consumer technology market. (marketwatch.com)
- Sony's TV Unit Returns To Profitability - After a decade of losses, Sony Bravia 4K HDTVs helped it return to profitability last quarter. (
hdtvtest.co.uk)
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Friends & Family |
- [members-only] Getting Hired: How to land a color grading job - Colorist Dan Moran offers up his insights in getting the color grading gig. (mixinglight.com)
- [discount offer] SpectraCal Tao Colorist Newsletter Special Offer - In case you missed it in September, here's the link detailing an $800 savings on a hardware / software bundle to test the accuracy of your reference monitor and decide if it's time to get the display re-calibrated. Offer ends October 31, 2013. (archive.aweber.com)
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Outside 'The Box' |
- A Day In The Life Of A 3D Artist - How one freelance 3D artist manages his day. (creativebloq.com)
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[video] Hitchcock: The Power of the Close-Up - This brief 4 minute video delves into Alfred Hitchcock's use of close ups. As an unexpected bonus, pay close attention to the color palette from Hitch's classic movies. No two Hitchcock movies had the same color scheme. (youtube.com)
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[video] Can playing with Lego make you more creative? - IQs may be going up. But creativity is on the decline. See what the Lego Group is doing to reverse that trend. (fastcoexist.com)
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[video] The sound design of 'Gravity' - Except George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. In this 10 minute video from SoundWorks, Director Alfonso Cuarón talks about the work involved to create a dramatic sound scape for his film, Gravity. Embed links are included if you want to locate a theater with Dolby Atmos. (vimeo.com)
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A distant talent - The ASC has an article on the famed Cinematographer, John Alton. You may not know his name, but Alton lensed some of Hollywood's best loved films. Behind the lens, a major talent. Away from the set, an outlier. Part one of a two-part story. (theasc.com
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Edumacate Yer'self |
- DaVinci Resolve 10 New Features Training - Presented by Resolve's Product Manager, Peter Chamberlain. Friday October 25, 2013, West Hollywood, CA (lumaforge.com)
- LA ACM SIGGRAPH and VES: Color Grading
- An update on the current trends in color science including Log, LUTs and DI workflows. Thursday October 27, 2013, Los Angeles (la.siggraph.org)
- Tao of Color 3-Day Workshop Fall Tour: Grade A Film, Learn DaVinci Resolve 10 - Intensive workshops offered by the Publisher of this newsletter. Put theory into action grading a real-life project. We'll be using Resove 10 Public Beta.
The workshop in Chicago is in under two weeks and then, it's Orlando in November. After that - it'll 2014 before the next round of workshops!(TaoOfColor.com)
- Southeast Creative Summit
: October 25, 26, 27. The Tao and MixingLight will be doing a half-dozen workshops on color grading plus a few on business. The overall agenda is much broader than our craft, from pre- through post- production. Some very interesting workshops. Save $100 with the code: tao2013 (southeastcreativesummit.com)
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"Inspiration" Cinematographers Forum - A structured dialogue between the guest DPs and the audience - Vienna, Austria October 18 to October 20th (imago.org)
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Sunday Morning Fun(nies) |
- [video] Telekinetic Coffee Shop - A way COOL publicity stunt puts unsuspecting coffee shop visitors in the middle of a set with flying stuntmen and motorized tables. Click through and watch to find out who backed this stunt. (youtube.com)
- [video] Crash- Flying- GoPro- Motorcycle- Turtle- Cams in Action - A great spot spoofing the trend of tiny cams used in commercial filmmaking. Click for a great laugh. (
sectionstudios.com via Dan Moran)
- [cartoon] Half the New York City Metro area right now - Your humble Newsletter Publisher is a long suffering New York Jets fan (american football, for my non-US readers). I'm probably about to jinx my team... but I don't give a damn! (imgur.com thanks
@danmoran!)
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Weekend Warriors |
- The Essential Guide To Building A Home Studio - You'll need to provide an email address for the full report. (videomaker.com)
- Benchmarking The iPhone 5S Versus Other Apple Devices
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Gear Heads |
- Quick Take: What's Hot About The 2013 iMac 'Haswell'? - Grading on your iMac? The newest iMac update has beefed up the GPU. Specs after the click. (barefeats.com)
- CPU and Storage Shootout: Fastest 2013 iMacs Versus Other Macs
- (barefeats.com)
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Getting Ahead |
- How effective people handle email - Running a creative business means managing your time, including how much time to devote to social networking. Tip: "your career will be made on your ability to get things done, not your ability to answer emails immediately." Click for more insights. (
99u.com)
- What's standing between you and your best work? - This is a very good article on how to un-process your counterproductive, soul-crushing processes. (fastcocreate.com
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- [video] Steve Jobs on failure - This is a short clip from a 1994 interview with Steve Jobs in which he gives advice to potential entrepreneurs. (youtube.com)
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[review] How to make your own luck - A new book gets straight talk from 21 celebrated creative entrepreneurs. The book is filled with witty and inspirational quotes, and something more. It might provide the rocket fuel to help you succeed in a way you never thought possible. (brainpickings.org)
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Showcase |
- [video] It's Just Paint - Phil Holland is a L.A.-based DP, with an impressive background in large budget Visual Fx on films such as, The Life of Pi, The Cabin in the Woods, and Moneyball. Phil recently helmed a quick two hour shoot with Red's new Epic Dragon camera. Phil emailed us to say that he did this quick grade using Redcine Pro-X. (
vimeo.com)
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The Next Step is a Doozy |
- [video] Running On Empty - Ross Ching is an L.A.-based director who has a love-hate relationship with traffic. As a specialist in time-lapses Ross managed to merge his passions and create a traffic-less America. I especially like the D.C. version. (vimeo.com
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A Step Too Far? |
- [video] Well of death - If driving drives you crazy, then check this short video out. There are no words to describe this. Just be grateful when you're having a bad day at work, that this isn't your regular job. (
youtube.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading!
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